Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett escribió:

> for the search, you need cache, for the cache you need metadata. Should 
> ZYpper 
> exit and tell the user to refresh, or should it ask the user whether to 
> refresh without exiting?

hrmmm.. I think neither of those.. why ask if it knows that a "refresh"
is needed ?

 zypper search foobar

shlould IMHO automatically refresh if **and only if** there is no
metadata,and hence no cache.


> In the case of YaST, should it download and refresh when adding the repos in 
> inst_source, or should it do it during startup of the package selector?

During the startup of the package selector, the user may "just" want to
add a source to install packages later. ;)







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