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

[Ralf Corsepius]

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