Is it just me...?

[stechert]

The ppc-macos keyword seems to be just about nonexistent in the current tree. I was able to emerge the system after some minor hassles with collision protection, but once I started getting into the real stuff, e.g., vim, bison, boost, etc., the paucity of this tag became very obvious very fast.

Am I missing something or are people just ekeyword-ing everything they need to emerge?

Thanks...

[stechert]

A quick check through my copy of the portage tree shows

cd /usr/portage

find . -name "*.ebuild" | xargs grep x86 | grep -v ~x86 | grep KEYWORDS | wc -l

11285

find . -name "*.ebuild" | xargs grep ppc-macos | grep -v ~ppc-macos | grep KEYWORDS | wc -l

287

find . -name "*.ebuild" | xargs grep ~ppc-macos | grep KEYWORDS | wc -l

327

fink list | wc -l

1736

port list | wc -l

2404

Is that roughly what other people are seeing? If so, Gentoo for Mac OS X has a very long way to go to compete with Darwin Ports and Fink.

I'd really much, much rather use Portage, but this is a pretty big deficit...

[pindar]

So what are you waiting for? Add the ppc-macos keyword to a couple of packages you like and try emerging them. If the emerge fails, find out why and write a patch. Report failures and success on bugzilla.

[robinp]

im doing:

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 grep -rl "^KEYWORDS.* ppc-macos" /usr/portage/ | grep "\.ebuild$" | wc -l

get 278 - note this doesn't include multiple ebuild versions (the php does that)

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 grep -rl "^KEYWORDS.*~ppc-macos" /usr/portage/ | grep "\.ebuild$" | wc -l

get 320

I use this to generate the lists on my web site:
http://www.users.on.net/~natrob/status.php