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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: libxlst and libxml2 dependencies in KDE3 [Re: how to start GNOME2 Desktop?]
From:       Simon Hausmann <simon () lst ! de>
Date:       2002-10-23 13:01:31
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:00:30PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 October 2002 11:40 am, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> |  On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 12:24:30PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> |  > |  > 5) libxml2 (ok, it's needed by kdebase, but *not needed* for
> |  > |  > Konquerro)
> |  > |
> |  > |  Nope, it's needed by kdelibs (kio_help) and necessary for viewing
> |  > |  KDE's help files. libxml2 and libxslt1 are a shared dependency for
> |  > |  that reason and in this case both were already installed on the
> |  > |  system. I forgot to remove them before doing this test, but as both
> |  > |  depend on both libraries it doesn't matter (and in the sum they add
> |  > |  a whopping megabyte (~500k d/l)) .
> |  >
> |  > I remember that Dirk Mueller wrote once (on <kde-devel> ?) that
> |  > dependency on libxml2 will be removed later, when XSLT would be better
> |  > suported (in Qt/KDE) Do you know something on that?
> |
> |  XSLT is for transforming XML files into another XML/HTML/text
> |  format. As a result of that libxslt depends on libxml ;-)
> 
> Yes, I know.
> And IIRC idea was exactly like this: to get rid of libxml2, when XLST support 
> is implemented.
> Can someone tell me please what are the current plans/status?

You seem to misunderstand: libxslt depends on libxml. libxslt
version 1.0.21 for example depends on libxml >= 2.4.19.

Simon
 
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