<html><head></head><body>I don't know, but I can verify that Inkscape works quite well without this package. I use Inkscape every day and have never installed this PyXML package.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 September 2017 5:57:19 AM NZST, Fernando Lopez <fernando.lopezjr@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">why does it have inkscape as keyword?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 11:48 AM, B Watson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yalhcru@gmail.com" target="_blank">yalhcru@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 9/3/17, Fernando Lopez <<a href="mailto:fernando.lopezjr@gmail.com">fernando.lopezjr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br />
> I dont see the need to remove packages. the more packages there are in<br />
> sbopkg the better even if outdated. I hate when admins remove packages just<br />
> because "it is not needed by any package" or "outdated" or "it breaks this"<br />
> or that... just add a note explaining the issue and have the user decide<br />
> if they will use the package or not but dont erase it for the rest of us.<br />
><br />
> my two cents.<br />
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</span>I normally would agree with you. However, PyXML causes actual harm: if<br />
it's installed, it causes random Python scripts to break, if they're<br />
trying to use the XML library that ships with Python itself. It will<br />
create extra *and pointless* work for maintainers. And the functionality<br />
of PyXML became part of core Python itself years ago.<br />
<br />
In other words, it conflicts with a package that's in core Slackware,<br />
which is against SBo guidelines. It's installing a 13-year-old outdated<br />
version of a library that's already present in Slackware's python package.<br />
<br />
I'm more familiar with Perl than Python, but this happens all the time:<br />
SBo has a Perl module, and in the next release of Slackware, the core<br />
perl package starts including that module. Keeping the old one around<br />
can cause problems with perl scripts.<br />
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