> 3) I could eliminate the libxml2 dependency by just grepping the xml > for "<address .*ip=". Is reduced correctness (which is probably 0% > different in practice) worth the reduced package dependencies? Or by using the ElementTree module that is part of the standard library: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html I just quickly skimmed through the script to check what kind of functionality you actually need when parsing the network XMLs, because ElementTree is simple and kinda convenient, but limited...however, from what I've seen in this patch, ElementTree should be sufficient here. Just my 2c that we can eliminate the libxml2 dependency in another way as well :). Regards, -- Erik Skultety
