making a LOT of headway on the gi stuff but hitting a namespace issue

aif/disk/_common.py

@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@ import gi
 gi.require_version('BlockDev', '2.0')
 from gi.repository import BlockDev, GLib
 
-ps = BlockDev.PluginSpec()
-ps.name = BlockDev.Plugin.LVM
-ps.so_name = "libbd_lvm.so"
+BlockDev.ensure_init([None])
 
-BlockDev.init([ps])
+
+def addBDPlugin(plugin_name):
+    plugins = BlockDev.get_available_plugin_names()
+    plugins.append(plugin_name)
+    plugins = list(set(plugins))  # Deduplicate
+    spec = BlockDev.plugin_specs_from_names(plugins)
+    return(BlockDev.ensure_init(spec))