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-rw-r--r--var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py
index f666d4dd4d..37d65c54c0 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ class Python(AutotoolsPackage):
extendable = True
# Variants to avoid cyclical dependencies for concretizer
- variant('libxml2', default=False,
+ variant('libxml2', default=True,
description='Use a gettext library build with libxml2')
variant(