[Yum] concern

[skvidal at phy.duke.edu (seth vidal)]

> You found yourself that possibly the xml passing could be done 
> statically ( not using libxml ). I thought of that. The problem with 
> libxml is that it sucks in this context. It depends on to many other 
> things. LibC for one.
> 

well if it is any consolation we're stopping use of libxml2 for
cElementTree for the xml parsing.

-sv