APT, Yum and Red Carpet

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 11:07, HoytDuff wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2003 10:10, James Olin Oden wrote:
> > Once a common metadata format is decided upon this will be even more easy,
> > as the repositories will store one metadata format, and all the same
> > rpms.
> 
> Rather than common metadata, how about a common app that creates the necessary 
> metadata in all formats? That may not be as elegant, but it would address the 
> problem a lot faster than it would ever be possible to get everyone to agree 
> to a common format.  

it hurts mirror maintainers. I don't want to carry around 4 copies of
the same data.

-sv