[Rpm-metadata] Is there an easy way to get a simple dict of rpm attributes from xml metadata?

[seth vidal]

> Unfortunately, only root can do that with yum 2.3.2 here, as user,
> I get:


after:
foo.doConfigSetup()
add:
foo.conf.setConfigOption('cache', 1)

> Apart from this, yum does really nice here on SuSE 9.3 ;)
> 
> No excessive memory hogging any more like in 2.0 times, and it feels
> fast, man..

good, good.

-sv