> > Who is working on this? It would seem that the install process would > > get complicated quickly. The different distros often use different FSHs and > > custom locations for config stuff. Great idea but what a headache? we're talking about metadata repository format. so instead of the header.info and *.hdrs for yum and Packages.gz and Releases for apt, etc, etc, etc, for all the other formats, the goal is to have one format that any/all of them can use. -sv