On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:49 -0400, John Dennis wrote: > Do we have a procedure to follow when we want to add a new dependency on > a package? > > In this particular instance I would like to add a dependency on > python-lxml to the ipaserver package. python-lxml is a python binding to > the very popular and high performance libxml2 package by our own Daniel > Veillard. FWIW there are already a lot of packages being shipped which > depend on libxml2. > > Why? We already have a need to parse xml and we're using minidom. > However minidom has a lot of limitations, foremost amongst them is it's > inability to parse HTML (it also lacks support for things like xpath). > python-lxml gives us the ability to do things we need to do but is > absent in minidom. > > So are there any issues with pulling in libxml2 via python-lxml?
I don't see any issue. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York _______________________________________________ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel