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Marcel Hilzinger schreef:
> Just a proposal for 10.3, as for 10.2 it's too late anyway:
> 
> I think the installation source module should not fetch any other data then 
> the source name. It should just put the right info on the right place, like 
> editing /etc/apt/sources.list or a file in /etc/yum/yum.d.repos/

I agree, to me it is the most annoying thing in the whole distro: to
have to wait half an hour for the meta-data to get downloaded.
Now it takes a little shorter, but still much too long.
Allmost as annoying as to have to wait for the 'zen-synchronisation'..

> 
> Why? With the current solution, each time you launch the installation source 
> module metadata is fetched. Most of us probably never need this metadata to 
> add a new source. I even doubt, that the module itsef needs this data.
> 
> If you start the Package Manager after the installation source module, the 
> same data is fetched again. So Suse does 2x the work, which would be needed 
> actually to perform an installation from a new source.
> 
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