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-rw-r--r--portato/backend/portage/system.py3
-rw-r--r--portato/backend/system_interface.py10
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/portato/backend/portage/system.py b/portato/backend/portage/system.py
index 53384dd..9cda5ab 100644
--- a/portato/backend/portage/system.py
+++ b/portato/backend/portage/system.py
@@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ class PortageSystem (SystemInterface):
return [package.PortagePackage(x) for x in list_of_packages]
+ def get_global_settings (self, key):
+ return self.settings.settings[key]
+
def find_best (self, list):
return package.PortagePackage(portage.best(list))
diff --git a/portato/backend/system_interface.py b/portato/backend/system_interface.py
index ade2414..f37d0a0 100644
--- a/portato/backend/system_interface.py
+++ b/portato/backend/system_interface.py
@@ -192,6 +192,16 @@ class SystemInterface:
raise NotImplementedError
+ def get_global_settings(self, key):
+ """Returns the value of a global setting, i.e. ARCH, USE, ROOT, DISTDIR etc.
+
+ @param key: the setting to return
+ @type key: string
+ @returns: the value of this setting
+ @rtype: string"""
+
+ raise NotImplementedError
+
def new_package (self, cpv):
"""Returns an instance of the appropriate Package-Subclass.