Tumbleweed required repos and updates

I am running openSUSE Tumblweed with KDE desktop on my laptop which I have brought on trip to NZ. Having sorted out my network connection and since the device had been out of use for a couple of weeks I tried to do a zypper dup update. The update required nearly 2000 files but almost very file in the first 30 was not available from the repo. In the end I had to abort.
I had tried again several times over the last half day, assuming that the problem might have been due to delays in syncing the mirrors but so far no good but I then had advice to change to the CDN source and so have disabled the old repo sites and enabled the CDN sites.
After going through a stack of changes for individual files I was able to proceed and as I type the update is progressing well.

Why I am posting now is that I wish to understand better how and why the CDN repos were installed and ask if I can get rid of the unwanted repos. I have far more than I would have thought necessary so what should I have for a TW installation as a minimum requirement please?

My list of repositories:

> zypper lr -EPu
# | Alias        | Name                        | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | URI
--+--------------+-----------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------
4 | 04_packman   | Packman openSUSE Tumbleweed | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   81     | https://ftp.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
1 | 01_update    | openSUSE Tumbleweed Update  | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   98     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/
2 | 02_oss       | openSUSE Tumbleweed Oss     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
3 | 03_non-oss   | openSUSE Tumbleweed Non-Oss | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/
5 | 05_libdvdcss | libdvdcss repository        | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
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