Enlightenment DR17, Gentoo, and a PowerPC

JonnyFunFun — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:26:42 +0000

So I have an old PowerBook “Pismo” that I inherited for nothing. It originally had Mac OS X on it, but it ran it way too slow for my likes – so I decided to put Linux on it – Gentoo to be specific. After getting the system working, which was actually extremely easy I might add (with the exception of the Hermes-I wireless card not supporting WPA), I went on to put X and a window manager in. I wanted to use Enlightenment because it’s fast, it’s cool, and because I like it.

After using layman to add the portage overlay and performing a –pretend install from emerge, I saw that E17 had been masked ~ppc. I scoured through the internet to see if there was some logic to it being masked against the PowerPC architecture, but could not find anything entirely definitive (or at least definitive and less than two years old). So, I decided to simply just ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=”~ppc” emerge -av e and pray for the best.

So what’s the purpose of this post, you might ask? Well, to make a long story short – Enligtenment DR17 works perfectly on the PowerPC architecture (or at least the revision I have checked out from SVN does). So if you’re a fellow Gentoo user who wants to install E17 on your PowerPC machine – I’m here to tell you that, for now, it works. Just accept the keyword, emerge it and enjoy your new WM!

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Enlightenment DR17, Gentoo, and a PowerPC