I chose the one-click install for the NVidia drivers in Opensuse 11.2 and it’s downloading 670 Megabytes of stuff!!! Looking at the names as they flash past, most of it is packages that were ALREADY INSTALLED! What in the name of Pete is going on??!??
Edit: in case it matters, I installed from the Live CD, 64 bit. But this is amazing. kde4games-cardecks just went past, and it’s even installing the polish, lithuanian and greek “myspell” packages!!!
Methinks the one-click might be BROKEN … … 
You’ve been redirected to a broken mirror with OpenOffice files in the Update repository, I’ve heard similar news from other people.
Could you take a peek at what server it’s downloading them from via netstat?
Since you’ve started the software installer via one-click, the mandatory openSUSE updates are being installed as well. So it’s not the NVIDIA driver that is doing that. Just starting the software installer without a one-click would have brought the same updates.
That, in the name of KnurPhT, is going on.
It’s not the size of the download, it’s the size of the space the package will take once installed.
stephen@linux-w6sz:~> netstat
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 192.168.62.3:42576 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 1 1 192.168.62.3:47546 pontifex.opens:www-http LAST_ACK
tcp 1 1 192.168.62.3:47376 pontifex.opens:www-http LAST_ACK
tcp 1 1 192.168.62.3:56669 ftp.kddlabs.co:www-http LAST_ACK
tcp 0 0 192.168.62.3:51040 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.62.3:48515 vw-in-f139.1e1:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 1 1 192.168.62.3:54711 ftp.kddlabs.co:www-http LAST_ACK
tcp 0 0 192.168.62.3:42575 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.62.3:38679 www.opensuse.o:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.62.3:47422 pontifex.opens:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 1 1 192.168.62.3:56680 ftp.kddlabs.co:www-http LAST_ACK
tcp 0 0 192.168.62.3:44355 btr0x2.rz.uni-:www-http TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.62.3:42573 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 1 1 192.168.62.3:47365 pontifex.opens:www-http LAST_ACK
tcp 0 0 192.168.62.3:57693 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 1 1 192.168.62.3:47353 pontifex.opens:www-http LAST_ACK
tcp 0 0 192.168.62.3:42574 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 1 1 192.168.62.3:47353 pontifex.opens:www-http LAST_ACK
tcp 0 0 192.168.62.3:42574 cot.novell.com:www-http ESTABLISHED
tcp 1 1 192.168.62.3:56657 ftp.kddlabs.co:www-http LAST_ACK
tcp 0 404 192.168.62.3:55667 cork.umd.edu:www-http ESTABLISHED
Don’t know which one is the offender …
The OS was released three days ago and there’s already SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEGS of Updates???
Kind of hard to believe, Cuz. I think I’ll go with Chrysantine’s explanation. 
Chrysantine, I’m letting run just because I’m curious. It’s now downloading all of the X.org libraries. That sounds like more than just OpenOffice. Example:
Downloading xorg-x11-libXprintUtil-32bit (download size 17.00 kB)
Installing xorg-x11-libXprintUtil-32bit-7.4-6.1.x86_64.rpm (installed size 34.00 kB)
Downloading libfprint0-32bit (download size 81.00 kB)
Installing libfprint0-32bit-0.0.6-12.3.x86_64.rpm (installed size 189.00 kB)
Downloading nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop (download size 2.52 MB)
Installing nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-190.42_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.2.x86_64.rpm (installed size 25.34 MB)
Downloading xorg-x11-libs-32bit (download size 583.00 kB)
Installing xorg-x11-libs-32bit-7.4-25.1.x86_64.rpm (installed size 2.10 MB)
Downloading pam_fp-32bit (download size 11.00 kB)
Installing pam_fp-32bit-0.1-15.3.x86_64.rpm (installed size 14.00 kB)
Downloading cairo-32bit (download size 235.00 kB)
Installing cairo-32bit-1.8.8-2.1.x86_64.rpm (installed size 531.00 kB)
Downloading pango-32bit (download size 287.00 kB)
Installing pango-32bit-1.26.0-2.5.x86_64.rpm (installed size 789.00 kB)
Downloading gtk2-32bit (download size 1.97 MB)
It’s pulling in x86_64 versions of 32bit libraries. Might be a bug in the driver dependencies. I am used to installing the driver manually, so don’t know if it’s the kmp-package.
I concur, there’s definitely something fishy there.
However, I just did a x86_64 installation via DVD today and it did not pull any additional files. I will try in a VM too.
This is the first time I’ve ever installed from a Live CD. Maybe that’s the problem.
I’m going to try it tomorrow on my laptop at work. That PC uses the horrible Intel 945 graphics chip, but at least I won’t have to worry about NVidia on that one.
Thanks for the help. If I can confirm what’s going on, I’ll file a bug report.
Hmm, I wonder if it could be a problem with the LiveCD in connection with the 1-click package?
Hmm. I need to download the LiveCDs.