Thank you for the help, I will give it a go.

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>


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