[zypper] verbose= [install] download=as-needed will add "--verbose" to /every/ zypper command line (somewhere before the subcommand), and "--download as-needed" whenever zypper is called with the "install" subcommand. Hence it yields command lines like zypper --root /bla/bla --verbose install --auto-agree-with-licenses --download as-needed some_package. If this is acceptable to you I can add some lines of documentation to the
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801920
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801920#c8
--- Comment #8 from Yarny Yarny