Comment # 6 on bug 1204956 from Volker Kuhlmann

(In reply to Andreas Stieger from comment #5)
> What the user wants is a zero-setup, distributed cache on a shared writable
> path, invalidation without central instance or consensus, but with
> resilience against hosts that are configured what he calls "anti-social" -
> DWIM.

I don't need invalidation, everything in the cache has been installed on at
least one host. I don't expect to have to deal with malicious hosts. What I
called anti-social is zypper deleting complete repos which on that particular
host are irrelevant to start with. zypper could just keep its fingers off areas
it is not involved in.

I understand RMT to be creating complete mirrors of repos, I don't need all
those GBytes.

> You could build something opportunistic with rsync.

Done, that's how I noticed stuff disappearing.