portage.package.ebuild.getmaskingreason module

portage.package.ebuild.getmaskingreason.getmaskingreason(mycpv, metadata=None, settings=None, portdb=None, return_location=False, myrepo=None)

If specified, the myrepo argument is assumed to be valid. This should be a safe assumption since portdbapi methods always return valid repo names and valid “repository” metadata from aux_get.