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

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:02:40PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> so you download the repomd.xml file (which is tiny tiny <1K), you check
> your md5sums versus the ones in the file, to determine what you might
> need.

Is the repomd data small enough that you can also stick it in DNS TXT
records so that you can use the domain name service as a global cache
for keeping lookup costs down ?