On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:34:09 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Technically, I don't see any need for apt to adopt yum's
repodata
format. Politically, this requirement is introduced by RH not wanting to
add apt-repositories and fedora.us apparently being unable to set up
complete repositories.
Unless I'm misinformed, fedora.us even provides an apt-repository for
pre-extras. What do you mean with "unable to set up complete
repositories"?
If apt-repositories are cleverly set up, the
additional overhead they introduce in addition to the original files
becomes more or less negligible.