[gentoo-portage-dev] Exporting basic emerge/portage functionality in an API

[René 'Necoro' Neumann]

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Hi,

I think, this is already somewhere on the agenda of portage (perhaps
with a low priority ;)), but I nevertheless wanted to ask for the
possibility to have as much of emerge's functionality exported in an API
as possible =).

The reason behind this is, that for Portato (this GUI thingy ;)), I have
to re-implement lots of things that portage does (update functionality,
parts of dep-string parsing etc). This is kind of sisyphean, because one
 has to:
- - notice/detect subtle changes (esp. the updating process often changes
unnoticed in small points)
- - support tons of portage versions

Especially with larger bumps (2.1.1 -> 2.1.2; -> 2.2) there are lots of
things breaking and showing another behavior.

In the sum, this work takes quite a large part of the whole development
process ... though showing no results for the user ;)

Thus, it would be really great, if I only had to use an API (which might
change over time - but API changes are easier to track and to work around).
Perhaps - as you currently seem to be restructuring the whole thing -
you can bundle some things and export them :). I bet there are more
people out there besides me, that use or want to use the portage API and
would be thankful, when they don't have to reinvent things :)

Else - thank you guys for your great work :). It's very great to see
portage's evolution over the last months.

Regards,
René
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