libxml v1 dependencies (was: Re: multilib fun - devel packages)

[Daniel Veillard]

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

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