On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:38 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > The point here is there is _already_ an XML parsing library in Fedora > > Core and most other distributions: libxml2. That library has existed > > for quite some time as well. We need to work on reducing duplicate > > functionality, not increasing it. This is not Debian with 12000+ > > packages, and they are unlikely to use yum at any point. Fedora Core is > > attempting to reduce duplicate functionality at this time, and adding > > cElementTree doesn't help that goal. > > > > But I'm the upstream maintainer of yum. So are you saying that upstream > maintainers should base their library selection on what's available in > fedora? Yum's not just used on fedora core. > > I don't think that makes all that much sense. No, but libxml2 is available on all platforms that yum runs on. dan
