On 13:11 Sun 17 Jul     , Michał Górny wrote:
> The other side effect is the 'gentoopm' project [2,3], providing
> an unified API to access all three PMs mentioned earlier. Right now, my
> main focus is implementing new interfaces there, and moving the code
> out of PMSTS to it.
> 
> Right now, gentoopm has already made its first release into the tree,
> and became used in smart-live-rebuild [4]. It is already able to find
> packages in basic kinds of repositories, get their metadata and read
> environment.bz2 files. It can work with atoms too.
> 
> I'd like to make it able to construct (and use) PM tool calls for
> various operations like installing and uninstall packages. It's going
> to use a flexible interface, making it easy to fit into various working
> environments -- printing argv, running through subprocess, glib event
> loop, threads and so on.

You might be interested in checking out what parts of the portage API 
are used by the Gentoo PackageKit backend, and making sure those are 
supported in gentoopm. Even more interesting would be completing a port 
of the PK backend to gentoopm. This latter part is clearly beyond the 
scope of your project, but it would be really useful after the summer 
ends.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Admin, Summer of Code
Gentoo Linux and X.Org
Blog: http://dberkholz.com