Michael M writes: > Hello list, I need to install Cairo bindings for dev-lang/php-5*. Is > there a pecl-cairo overlay for ~x86? I've tried unmasking this > package and adding the keyword ~amd64 and it seems to want to install > with emerge but my system is ~x86. > > According to this site it is only ~amd64, but I cannot understand why. > http://gpo.zugaina.org/dev-php5/pecl-cairo
As Sam pointed out, maybe it's working, but but just not tested on other architectures. To try without modifying the ebuild, you could put the package into /etc/portage/package.keywords, followed by a ~*. From the portage man page: Note: In addition to the normal values from ACCEPT_KEYWORDS package.keywords supports three special tokens: * package is visible if it is stable on any architecture ~* package is visible if it is in testing on any architecture ** package is always visible (KEYWORDS are ignored completely) Wonko