as per summary, could be keyworded $ emerge -pv sam2p These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-gfx/sam2p-0.45 USE="gif" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2007.0/64bit-userland, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-rc8-gff0ce684 ppc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-rc8-gff0ce684 ppc64 PPC970, altivec supported Timestamp of tree: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64 ~ppc64" CBUILD="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=970 -mtune=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec" CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=970 -mtune=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildsyspkg collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en fr" MAKEOPTS="-j4" 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 /share/texlive/aballier/texlive-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl alsa altivec audiofile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bogofilter bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus djvu dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread dvi encode exif ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gnutls gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk hal hfs icecast iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog ithreads jbig jpeg jpeg2k ladspa lame lcms libcaca libnotify libsamplerate live lyrics lzo mad matroska md5sum midi mikmod mjpeg mng mod modplug mp2 mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack ncurses nls nodrm nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png ppc64 ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime raw readline reflection sdl session shout skins smp sndfile speex spell spl sql sqlite sqlite3 ssl svg t1lib taglib tcpd tga theora threads tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts tta type1-fonts unicode vim-syntax vorbis wavpack wma wmf wxwindows x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
thanks. added ~ppc64. (sorry, this took a bit longer...)