Description of problem: comps.py in rhpl needs libxml2-python, but it's not specified as a dependency of rhpl Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhpl-0.110.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to import rhpl.comps on a clean RHEL3-U2 installation 2. 3. Actual results: >>> import rhpl.comps Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhpl/comps.py", line 5, in ? import libxml2 File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named libxml2mod >>> Expected results: >>> import rhpl.comps >>> Additional info:
rhpl is a catch-all package. Things that are using rhpl need to know what the dependencies of the modules they use are. Otherwise, we bloat things even more than they already are.