On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Michael M <thecr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>
>
~* worked fine.  Thanks again.

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