Comment # 8 on bug 1222086 from Michael Andres

zypper-1.14.71 no longer tries to refresh any repository data for non-root
users. It will just print some stats about age and availability of metadata.

> Repository            : Time since last refresh
> packman               : 1 h 21 min 
> repo-backports-update : No metadata available! Skipping it!
> repo-non-oss          : 1 h 21 min 
> repo-oss              : 1 h 21 min 
> repo-sle-update       : 1 h 21 min 
> repo-update           : 2 s 
> repo-update-non-oss   : 1 h 21 min 
>
>    Note: Running with user privileges. From time to time run 
>    'zypper refresh' as root to make sure the repository metadata
>     are complete and up-to-date.

Note: This applies only to the systems repositories (root=/). If one created a
root as user, it is still possible to add and refresh repos therein.