Original summary:
re-engineer reporting of locked packages during up and dup operations

Mailing list thread starter (7 participants total):
Summary:
unnecessarily noisy zypper -v
<https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/W7YLUMBC6YIK4JOGA27QT7LKHASUD3A2/>

There seemed to be a consensus that some improvement would be desirable,
instead of such locks as *-lang or texlive* generating a list of thousands of
locked packages, of which only the first hundred or so litter the screen before
being ellipses'd and a 4 digit total presented:

[quote]# zypper -n dup -l
Retrieving repository���������
The following 8109 items are locked and will not be changed by any action:
  Available:���������
   brltty brltty-debuginfo brltty-debugsource brltty-driver-at-spi2 
���������
texlive-addfont-doc ... and 8006 more items.
  Installed:
   cherrytree cherrytree-lang iwscanner
  Run 'zypper locks -s' to see the complete list of locked items.
���������
[/quote]

IMO, detailed reporting of locked packages that are not installed do not need
mentioning, unless possibly as a summary total, whether with or without
zypper's -v option. Leave detailed locks reporting of uninstalled packages to
the ll -s options. It's entirely silly to show a list subset that concludes
with ellipsis.