On Apr 1, 2005, at 13:29, seth vidal wrote: > 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. > sorry to hear that. Karsten
