libxml v1 dependencies

[Shahms King]

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Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 07:14:36PM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 08:33 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:39:47PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>
>>>>libxml-devel-1.8.17-13
>>>
>>>Why on earth do I still hear about libxml (v1) in the context of Fedora ?
>>>Repeat after me, this package is dead, unmaintained, and nothing should
>>>rely on it anymore, shipping a -devel for it is just insane, I though the
>>>decision it was dropped for good had been taken ages ago, or did I missed
>>>something ?
>>
>>At least the following still shipped rawhide packages have a build
>>dependency on libxml-devel: gal, GConf, gnome-print, gnucash, gtkhtml,
>>Guppi, libglade, oaf.
> 
> 
>   that's the old GNOME-1 APIs, I really hope no core apps still use this
> 
> Daniel

I'm pretty sure the only core app that uses the GNOME 1 libraries is
gnucash.  Unfortunately, it's still the best personal finance program
for GNOME and the GNOME 2 port is going glacially slow.


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