On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 23:44 -0600, Satish Balay wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, William Hooper wrote: > > > Bryan J. Smith said: > > > P.S. And not to throw any bigotry into the questions, hence why this is > > > a "P.S.," but I haven't seen a good explanation on why YUM is getting > > > preference over APT in current Red Hat Fedora moves? > > > > APT has never been part of Fedora Core and has always been an "Extra". > > I'm sure as soon as Fedora Extras for FC3 get up they will include a > > package for APT. > > Also - does APT support the new metadata format? ATM, not that I know. > Or is this a yum only thing De-facto: Yes. > - which apt will never support? (I thought the new format was a > common thing for all tools) There are rumors about people working on adding metadata repository support to apt, but "I ain't seen nothin' yet" :) Ralf
