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[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:38 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > 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.

No, but libxml2 is available on all platforms that yum runs on.

dan