Not sure if this is a dup of 157734. I'm getting errors when doing an emerge world after upgrading to portage-2.1.2_rc3-r6 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies / "invalid atom: '>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.4*'" Parent: ('installed', '/', 'app-misc/emelfm2-0.0.9-r1', 'nomerge') >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.4* !!! Problem resolving dependencies for app-misc/emelfm2 !!! Depgraph creation failed. Portage and bash were the only packages I upgraded since things were last working. Trying to revert portage back to portage-2.1.2_rc3-r5 results in this: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies | Error occurred while processing media-plugins/gst-plugins-gnomevfs-0.6.4 "invalid atom: '=gst-plugins-0.6.4*'" Note that the gst-plugins-0.6.4 package isn't even in portage any more. Portage 2.1.2_rc3-r6 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.7 Last Sync: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:00:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dlloader dri eds elibc_glibc emacs emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 iconv imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_fbdev video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa vorbis xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
That's a feature, not a bug. The ebuild dependency syntax is broken.
There's no app-misc/emelfm2 in official tree, if you installed it from some overlay, then unmerge it and fix the ebuild. Same for gst-plugins-gnomevfs.
In case you don't already know, >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.4* should be >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.4 (without the *).