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> yum-2.3.2-1
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> * Mon Apr 04 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.3.2-1
> - update to 2.3.2, now requires python-elementtree for xml parsing
Why yet another XML library ?
What is so special about that library and yum ?
We've moved to elementTree for parsing the xml metadata from libxml2.
The tests we've done have shown a 2-3x speed improvement with a lighter
memory footprint.
-sv