The following package atom syntax is wrong: > Code Listing 3.4: Installing both PHP-5.2 and -5.3 > emerge =dev-lang/php:5.2 =dev-lang/php:5.3 Error: > !!! '=dev-lang/php:5.2' is not a valid package atom. > !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. After removing the equal signs ("=") it works fine: $ emerge -av dev-lang/php:5.2 dev-lang/php:5.3 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-lang/php [5.2.14-r2] ... [ebuild N ] dev-lang/php [5.3.3-r3] ... Reproducible: Always
fixed, thx for the report.