dev-perl/Perl-Critic works fine on PPC, but its ebuild is missing the ppc keyword, as well as some of its dependencies. Here are the packages I had to add to /etc/portage/package.keywords to make it work: dev-perl/Perl-Critic ~x86 dev-perl/B-Keywords x86 dev-perl/String-Format x86 dev-perl/PPI x86 dev-perl/Test-Object x86 dev-perl/Test-SubCalls x86 dev-perl/Hook-LexWrap x86 dev-perl/Task-Weaken x86 Once I did that, it installed without problem and works fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge dev-perl/Perl-Critic Actual Results: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "Perl-Critic" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-perl/Perl-Critic-1.03 (masked by: missing keyword) - dev-perl/Perl-Critic-1.05 (masked by: missing keyword) - dev-perl/Perl-Critic-1.05.1 (masked by: missing keyword) - dev-perl/Perl-Critic-1.05.3 (masked by: missing keyword) - dev-perl/Perl-Critic-1.06 (masked by: missing keyword) - dev-perl/Perl-Critic-1.061 (masked by: missing keyword) Expected Results: dev-perl/Perl-Critic should be emerged.
~ppc'd. Thanks for testing :)