On 1/17/06, Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/17/06, Rodney Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - It uses perl-XML-Simple, unlike other perl utilitites like intltool, > > > which > > > use perl-XML-Parser. This is a problem for us, since perl-XML-Simple is > > > in Fedora Extras atm. > > > > Well, the difference in complexity between Simple and just Parser is an > > order of magnitude of difference, in terms of code, and I personally am > > not going to change it, just for Fedora. > > This shouldn't be looked at as a 'just for Fedora' thing. Addition of > external dependencies to release set modules is subject to community > approval and we do have precedent of not allowing hard dependencies on > modules that maintainers would have otherwise used. It only makes > sense because we don't want an explosion of external dependencies. > Given Matthias objection, it is something we'll have to push for > general consensus on.
I may be able to get perl-XML-Simple pulled into FC2, even if we normally don't allow new packages after test2. But regardless of that, it sucks to use *yet* another perl parser, just because we haven't used them all yet...
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