Am 29.01.2016 um 16:30 schrieb Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar:
It does not need to gather / download this data at all if there is no user for it.
zypper IS a user of it:
But it can work well without it. As my patch (which I am using for over 3 months now) clearly shows.
Just because one does not know about the feature does not make the feature go away.
Just because a feature is available does not make it useful for me. Just make the download of the metadata configurable, and everything else will follow almost automatically (I only very seldom see these "application foo will be uninstalled" messages from zypper, now that I do not download the metadata anymore). -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org