On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 13:25 -0800, Karsten Jeppesen wrote: > Hello Seth, > > Since you changed to using xml (which i don't mind) I see one problem. > You are now dependent of the xml library and its dependencies. > In my opinion that is a severe limitation in the case where you will > attempt to update from one distribution to the next ( ex. YDL3.x to YDL > 4.x ) > > I am aware of the problems but it really would be nice t keep the > dependencies to a minimum on the update function in an environment. > anaconda depends on them, too. and yum 2.0.X required libxml2 for the groups parsing before. it's not new and if we don't do this then we either have to: - write our own xml parser - fat chance - do without the xml - that ship has sailed. the xml has been in use for quite some time while and we're not going back to headers. -sv
