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[Michael Schwendt]

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.