[Freeipa-devel] adding a new dependency (python-lxml)

[John Dennis]

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?

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