Hi Arun

Yum developers might be looking into using this library instead of pycurl but we need requests library not to bundle anything else so that we can figure out the true cost of using it in terms of additional dependencies and size

Refer to

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-February/179020.html

If you don't have time, let me know and I will take a look

Rahul