i have set up an ebuild called eclipse-ve-bin-1.0_rc2.ebuild. The contents are: # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-util/eclipse-ve-bin/eclipse-ve-bin-1.0_rc1.ebuild,v 1.3 2004/07/14 23:26:11 agriffis Exp $ inherit eclipse-ext DESCRIPTION="The Eclipse Visual Editor provides GUI builders for Eclipse." HOMEPAGE="http://www.eclipse.org/vep/" SRC_URI="http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ve/downloads/drops/S-1.0M2-200407301410/VE-runtime-1.0M2.zip" SLOT="2" LICENSE="CPL-1.0" KEYWORDS="~x86 ~ppc" IUSE="" DEPEND=">=dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.0.0_pre8 >=dev-util/eclipse-emf-bin-200403250631 >=dev-util/eclipse-gef-bin-20040330" src_unpack() { mkdir ${S} cd ${S} unpack ${A} } src_compile() { einfo "${P} is a binary package" } src_install () { eclipse-ext_require-slot 3 eclipse-ext_create-ext-layout binary eclipse-ext_install-features eclipse/features/* eclipse-ext_install-plugins eclipse/plugins/* } it merges and works for ppc, so i think it should be marked ~ppc. Its dependencies also merge and work fine, so they should be marked ~ppc as well.
It installs an x86-specific .so file, so I've marked it as -* ~x86. Unless somebody has the time to supply a from-source ebuild for this package, I guess it will never be available on ppc, I'm afraid.