On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 00:51 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote: > Just curious, what the background is on these two. libxml2 was taken > out as a dep in yum.spec, but the code in yum/mdcache.py, > repomd/packageSack.py, and repomd/repoMDObject.py still use it. > elementtree is nowhere to be found. > > Should the spec be tweaked dropping elementtree and adding libxml2 back > in? ultimately what should happen here is all places where libxml2 is actually used should be fixed so it's not. I'd like to get everything to elementtree only. A big part of the problem is that the metadata parsing routines are now subclasses of subclasses of subclasses so we need to condense out a lot of that and see if we can keep it working. -sv
