It works fine for me. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.6 (default-bsd/fbsd/6.2/x86, gcc-4.1.2, freebsd-lib-6.2-r1, 6.2-RELEASE i386) ================================================================= System uname: 6.2-RELEASE i386 i386 Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_alpha2 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 06 May 2007 06:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 6.2-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86-fbsd ~x86-fbsd" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i486-gentoo-freebsd6.2" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i486-gentoo-freebsd6.2" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sfperms strict" LINGUAS="en ru" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="berkdb bzip2 cli crypt cups dri gdbm iconv java5 libg++ midi ncurses nls oss pam pcre perl ppds python readline reflection session slang spl ssl tcpd truetype unicode utf8 x86-fbsd xorg zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="shm" ELIBC="FreeBSD" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="FreeBSD" LINGUAS="en ru" USERLAND="BSD" VIDEO_CARDS="vmware" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
esearch-0.7.1-r4 seems to already have the ~x86-fbsd keyword, closing.
