Yup, you're right.  It's that darn $ARCH flag - works for some things, 
not for others.  Fix is in the works.  Thanks for spotting this one.

David

Olivier Reisch wrote:

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>>Hi Olivier,
>>
>>ncompress is listed as an "RDEPEND" for those builds - i.e.  needed for
>>building, but (when Portage is a little more advanced), disposable once
>>the package is compiled and installed.  Your suggestion about adding it
>>to the base system may still hold (though I assume there's a good reason
>>ncompress is used for the ppc files instead of gunzip); but the ebuilds
>>should work fine, since they'll pull ncompress in first.  If they don't,
>>something is broken!
>>
>>David
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>Something is broken.
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