> [...] > > yum-2.3.2-1 > > ----------- > > * Mon Apr 04 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.3.2-1 > > - update to 2.3.2, now requires python-elementtree for xml parsing > > Why yet another XML library ? > What is so special about that library and yum ? > We've moved to elementTree for parsing the xml metadata from libxml2. The tests we've done have shown a 2-3x speed improvement with a lighter memory footprint. -sv