Troy Dawson wrote:
> I'm all for keeping apt completely out of the release.  I don't know 
> about the SLC part, but for the SL part, when we push out updates, it's 
> now taking hours for SL 3.  And the majority of the time is building the 
> apt repositories.

why not use the new Apt ? it uses the rpm-metadata ( that yum uses ) for 
its backend stuff, and its functional on everything from RH7.3 to EL5.

- KB