diff --git a/sys-apps/heirloom-tools/heirloom-tools-070715-r7.ebuild b/sys-apps/heirloom-tools/heirloom-tools-070715-r7.ebuild
index 02c8bac8437c0..73bcc621c893d 100644
--- a/sys-apps/heirloom-tools/heirloom-tools-070715-r7.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/heirloom-tools/heirloom-tools-070715-r7.ebuild
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ S="${WORKDIR}/heirloom-${PV}"
 
 LICENSE="ZLIB BSD BSD-4 CDDL GPL-2+ LGPL-2.1+ LPL-1.02 Info-ZIP public-domain"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc64 ~x86"
 # slightly broken
 RESTRICT="test"