apt-rpm supported?

[seth vidal]

>     Odd. I only looked into Fedora in the first place to use apt-rpm.
> I'm quite surprised to hear that it's not yet officially supported. As a
> long-time Debian user, it made me feel very comfortable on an rpm-based
> distro. 
>     Any good comparisons of the two? Can I install based on pathname,
> libname in yum? Is the search facility as good as "apt-cache"? 

yum search and yum provides

-sv