> > 2. Under assumed name, "libxmlread" or something. This means that > > nothing which doesn't explicitly ask for it will get in touch with > > this version of libexpat, and that will only be the programs in > > the tree. We don't need to track the official libexpat (sort of > > like the DB(3) situation, except with better isolation I guess). > > This seems to be a nice idea. Can you trim down "our" version of expat > to only the libxmlread part or so? This way we don't get too much > bloat, the perl fiasco won't happen, and once we've got a working > version we can update only for bug fixes. IMO 1. would be better with a complete expat. So the ports could use the system version and probably/maybe the drift between the official- and system-version will not be that big. And compared to Perl expat it rather small. So the bloat couldn't be that big..
Marc
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