Various Fedora Extra changes (mailing list?), plus is APT now deprecated?

[Satish Balay]

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? Or is this a yum only
thing - which apt will never support? (I thought the new format was a
common thing for all tools)

Satish