Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-10-20 12:29, Per Inge Oestmoen via openSUSE Users wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:02:33 +0200 pioe--- via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
This does happen with all repositories, read the text.
He didn't claim it didn't. He explained how the presence of an Nvidia card pulled in through dependencies what I assume to be a general package for 'managing' all repositories
Oh, then I understand. The NVIDIA repository somehow "dictated" the behavior of all the others.
No.
NVidia installation decided the installation of openSUSE-repos-Leap-NVIDIA*.rpm, and this package demanded the installation of "openSUSE-repos-Leap*.rpm", and this last rpm did the changes you suffered. Which is news to me, too.
This is really new, yes.
I assume those packages are of type "service". Maybe: man 8 zypper
Services Services are one level above repositories and serve to manage repositories or to do some special tasks. Libzypp currently supports Repository Index Service (RIS) and Plugin Service.
Repository Index Service (RIS) is a special type of repository which contains a list of other repositories. This list can be generated dynamically by the server according to some URI parameters or user name, or can be static. Once such service is added to your system, zypper takes care of adding, modifying, or removing these repositories on your system to reflect the current list. See section Service Management and https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Standards_Repository_Index_Service for more details.
Thank you too, this is very illustrative. I have now been able to get out the shit, and now I keep all my packages. What I still do not understand, is why the "openSUSE-repos-Leap*.rpm" dictated that we should be prevented from keeping our downloads. But the discussion has definitely been worthwhile. Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway