dev-php5/pecl-http-1.6.6 has this in DEPEND: >=dev-lang/php-5[hash,spl,session,iconv] spl is not flag for php-5.3 since it's required for this version of PHP This causes emerge trying to downgrade to 5.2.14. Please remove this flag when building with php-5.3.* Reproducible: Always
Missed that one. Thanks, fixed.