KEYWORDS

In an ebuild the KEYWORDS variable informs in which architectures the ebuild is stable or still in testing phase.

Examples
The following example contains some possible values for the KEYWORDS variable:

See the for a list of keywords.

The prefix  (a tilde character) placed in front of various architectures in the example above means that architecture is in a "testing phase" and is not ready for production usage.

Special keywords
In addition to the normal KEYWORDS values Portage supports three special tokens:


 * - Package is visible if it is stable on any architecture.
 * - Package is visible if it is in testing on any architecture.
 * - Package is always visible ( KEYWORDS are ignored completely).

If you encounter the  KEYWORD, this indicates that the package is known to be broken on all systems which are not otherwise listed in KEYWORDS. For example, a binary only package which is built for the will look like:

If you wish to accept this package anyways, then use one of the other keywords in the like this:

For detailed information see the Portage man page.

External resources

 * Gentoo Development Guide: Keywording