283195 – sys-apps/dbus ebuild should use libxml instead of expat

Bug 283195 - sys-apps/dbus ebuild should use libxml instead of expat

Summary: sys-apps/dbus ebuild should use libxml instead of expat

Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2009-08-30 02:27 UTC by Pavel
Modified:	2009-08-31 14:51 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Pavel 2009-08-30 02:27:23 UTC

Libxml2 is now more favoured xml backend than unmaintained expat. It should be
used by default

Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2009-08-30 07:27:23 UTC

Once again, a reference to the docs or a recent post
is reqired, this time from dbus.

Comment 2 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-30 10:53:05 UTC

Whare do you have this information from. Please at a quote and reopen bug.

Comment 3 Pavel 2009-08-31 12:31:11 UTC

Oh, please excuse me for my poor English, please see explanation here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283191.
Also I would like to post recent benchmarks responding to biases about libxml2 performance problems http://xmlbench.sourceforge.net/results/features200901/index.html.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2009-January/003077.html

Comment 4 Pavel 2009-08-31 12:52:19 UTC

reopened bug

Comment 5 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-31 14:51:47 UTC

That's for fontconfig. I don't really know how dbus handles xml, but if dbus doesn't have any libxml support, it's an upstream bug/feature request.

Thanks