I was wondering why fedora has choosen yum over apt-get

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 21:02 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:37:35PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > records so that you can use the domain name service as a global cache
> > > for keeping lookup costs down ?
> > 
> > I'm kinda hoping your joking, but.
> 
> Im quite serious - there are numerous protocols that have used DNS for
> this purpose and awareness is now growing (its been one of those neat things
> nobody quite 'got' for years).

I'm curious how this is useful when there can be multiple repositories
on any given server.

Is there a good place to look for how the dns txt information is being
more commonly used?


-sv