[Yum] concern

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 13:25 -0800, Karsten Jeppesen wrote:
> Hello Seth,
> 
> Since you changed to using xml (which i don't mind)  I see one problem.
> You are now dependent of the xml library and its dependencies.
> In my opinion that is a severe limitation in the case where you will 
> attempt to update from one distribution to the next ( ex. YDL3.x to YDL 
> 4.x )
> 
> I am aware of the problems but it really would be nice t keep the 
> dependencies to a minimum on the update function in an environment.
> 

anaconda depends on them, too.

and yum 2.0.X required libxml2 for the groups parsing before.

it's not new and if we don't do this then we either have to:
 - write our own xml parser - fat chance
 - do without the xml - that ship has sailed. the xml has been in use
for quite some time while and we're not going back to headers.

-sv