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[seth vidal]

> The point here is there is _already_ an XML parsing library in Fedora
> Core and most other distributions: libxml2.  That library has existed
> for quite some time as well.  We need to work on reducing duplicate
> functionality, not increasing it.  This is not Debian with 12000+
> packages, and they are unlikely to use yum at any point.  Fedora Core is
> attempting to reduce duplicate functionality at this time, and adding
> cElementTree doesn't help that goal.
> 

But I'm the upstream maintainer of yum. So are you saying that upstream
maintainers should base their library selection on what's available in
fedora? Yum's not just used on fedora core.

I don't think that makes all that much sense.

-sv