Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage.settings.profiles

[Zac Medico]

Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Hello!
>
>
> In my current code for GSoC/Gentoo/Smolt I access the list of folders
> that /etc/make.profile and parents are resolved to:
>
>   portage.settings.profiles
>
> I do this to be able access
>
>   - profile package.mask,
>   - user package.mask, and
>   - user package.unmask
>
> independently, which
>
>   portage.settings._getMaskAtom
>   portage.settings._getProfileMaskAtom
>
> seem not be able to at the moment, besides looking quite private :-)
>
> Rationale:
>   Among other things I want to find out if the user unmasked a certain
>   package in the past even if the related mask entry for it was removed
>   in the meantime.  Also, I want to be able to distinct between a
>   a "stable on stable package" and an "unmasked masked package".
>
>
> What I would like to ask for is we could decide that
>
>   portage.settings.profiles is declared part of the public
>   API and not allow to change anymore

Go ahead and use it. It's safe. Most attributes that aren't marked
with an underscore are pretty safe. If there has to be a change then
typically I do it under a new name and leave the old one for
compatibility.

> or
>
>   if we could introduce some getter for now so I could surround
>   the current access to <portage.settings.profiles> by a portage
>   API version check and use the getter from a certain version on.
>
>
> Integrating my code for portage related code into smolt does not seem
> reasonable to me as it would require depending on a version of portage
> that will not be stable before 2010 or so.
>
> Please share your thoughts with me.
>
>
>
> Sebastian
>


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Thanks,
Zac