Hello, When I start "Software Manager" yast module, it takes really much time before I see the window with a list of packages - it downloads updates for each the repository info xml files in order to find out which packages now have updated versions in repository etc. I have 256K ADSL connection, and it takes about 5 minutes the "Software Manager" to start. This is ok, if I want to install a new package or to find updates for existing, because I know it would be impossible to do it without refreshing server info. But if I want just to take a look at a list of packages, or to remove one - this becomes rather annoying to wait all this time for the operation I do not need at this moment. I know that I can set a flag for each repository, so it will not download updates when the "Software Manager" is started, but as I have said, some times I need to start this module to get new packages (so download updates operation is required), and sometimes to remove them (download updates becomes annoying). Switching on/off this flag in repository manager before each time I would like to start "Software Manager" is not really good solution - I would rather wait few minutes doing something else, and then return to it. This is why I do not see other solution than to create 2 separate Yast modules: - the 1st one would start as current yast Software Manager - it would download updates for the repositories accorging to the settings for each repository; - the 2nd one would be exactly the same app with only one difference - it will not go online for repository updates on startup, so it would start rather quickly. Another variation of the same idea is to change Software Manager, so it will never download repository updates itself - this operation would be moved to the separate yast module like "Refresh Repository Info" - so the user will decide on its own when he would like to make his repositories up to date. I could think of suggesting better solutions like optimizing existing update process so it would take less time and traffic, or creating some kind of background daemon which would update repositories periodically, so the would be always almost up-to-date, but all this does not sound doable in the nearest time, and adding new Yast Module seems to be easy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org