I have some items that I'm just not clear about. Probably simple, but I have not been able to find answers by googling, etc ... As a routine, I follow the procedures in the "gem report Hacking SLED 10" to add additional repos and then software, so that I can get a more complete multi-media experience. What I am wondering is: 1)Should the packman and any other repo be taken out of the list of catalogues so that when the little updater thingy checks for updates, it will not look through the open suse 10.1 repo, for example? 2)when online updates are done (or, an "SP1" is installed), will the "multi-media aware versions of totem and mplayer, etc ... be over-written by "updated" versions from the official sled repo? 3)in general, if software is installed from say a downloaded RPM ... will it get over-written or screwed up by updates? Is there any way to protect against this? Thnx! Peter -- "Do not be idolatrous or bound to any doctrine, theory or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means, not absolute truth." Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese monk. http://www.seaox.com/thich.html www.the-brights.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org