* Marcel Hilzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Nov 24. 2006 17:10]:
> 
> But why 90% of all package managers work the other way? With apt, smart, yum 
> adding a source needs no internet connection and it's a matter of a second. 
> Metadata is only loaded, when you want to install something.  I don't see, 
> why the YaST solution would be better, but feel free to convince me ;-)

I just think that getting a 'repository not available' error (due to
mistyped URL, server down, whatever) is more intuitive during the actual
adding of the repo.

There are no technical reasons for one way or the other.

Klaus
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