wallet/no-wallet, net-connection, Yast, Splashma5

[fitterski]

My router provides 2 frequency-band connection services to accomodate different clients. On my desktop I can use either one because my usb transceiver can handle either one. On my (older) laptop I can only use the inferior type (don't know their technical properties off-hand, only the names that I gave them).

kWallet is installed (only because I cannot NOT install it), don't know if I ever gave it a password. I by far prefer typing passwords in from memory and trusting nothing ever to any form of storage, much less any concentrated form of storage.

When I have Yast doing an update with a list of downloads to eat its way thorough I OFTEN end up in a situation where the downloads just stop in a subtle manner, not always hinting with "will retry in X seconds". At such times the interrupted download usually resumes as soon as I cycle the router connection to the other service, works for a while, then I have to cycle again.

Do I have an OS-level problem, a repo server issue, or what? I have no idea but it's a real pain because I might start an update, go to bed, and come back in the morning with 5 of 1000 files downloaded before everything halted.

[Knurpht]

On Tumbelweed, do not use YaST or some updater applet. These perform 'zypper up', where TW needs 'zypper dup'.
The wallet system can be disabled.

[fitterski]

On Tumbelweed, do not use YaST or some updater applet. These perform 'zypper up', where TW needs 'zypper dup'.
The wallet system can be disabled.

I tried zypper dup, I got so many errors it was discouraging and *wallet* got installed even though it was tabooed in Yast. Does zypper take any yast taboos into account? If not how can I taboo a list a packages for zypper?

I think I got the wallet disabled (not all that straightforward, added "Enabled=false" to /.kde4/share/config/kwallet.rc) but I'd much rather taboo it and never have any part of it installed.