You could setup a new, empty VM and use it as a download only machine for packages, although it makes the process a bit more complicated.

I found this, maybe it is a suitable solution? https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/408348

Don‘t stop believing, we are the champions of another brick in the wall on the highway to hell

𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉

This way, to familiarize yourself with the endless pleasures that will follow our untimely passings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWKGyO4jwWw

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Since I had to deal with some representatives of SUSE corp, I can say that the whole experience was just plain horrible. Don‘t like that company at all and thus am not surprised that the name change topic is even discussed at all.

The issue with COBOL surely isn‘t about the language itself. The real challenge will be to decipher the spaghetti code that was created at a company in the last sixty or so years. And then to dare changing something without breaking the program as a whole.

Have a smartphone ready and record a video clip when/if it happens again.