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 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
