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

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

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).

> here's a sample:
> http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/samples/repomd-sample.xml

Well you might want to lose the xml for the TXT records but the rest would
certainly fit nicely into DNS