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On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua> writes:
> > Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
> > > [...]  XML itself is too general-purpose: it has too much baggage
> > > designed for its primary function of facilitating interoperation
> > > between diverse systems in different zones of control, none of which
> > > is particularly applicable to system startup.
> > While in general I agree with You, I must note that We already have
> > xml parser (expat 1.95) for geom. See /lib/libbsdxml.so*
> Non sequitur.  The fact that we have an XML parser in base does not make
> XML more (or less) suitable for the task.
I never said anything like this.
Only that argument about 'to have another shlib or two...
available early in the boot process' is invalid.


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