# paludis -pi mplayer Building target list... Building dependency list...paludis@1174582208: [WARNING] In program paludis -pi mplayer: ... When performing install action from command line: ... When executing install task: ... When adding PackageDepSpec 'media-video/mplayer': ... When fetching versions of 'media-video/mplayer' in gentoo: ... When loading versions for 'media-video/mplayer' in gentoo: ... Skipping entry '/var/paludis/repositories/gentoo/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r1.ebuild' for 'media-video/mplayer' in repository 'gentoo' paludis@1174582208: [WARNING] (same context) Skipping entry '/var/paludis/repositories/gentoo/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321.ebuild' for 'media-video/mplayer' in repository 'gentoo' These packages will be installed: * media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc1-r2 {:0} [R] (-3dfx) 3dnow 3dnowext X aac -aalib alsa (-altivec) -amr arts -bidi -bindist -bl cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga -directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb dvd dvdread -enca encode -esd -fbcon -ggi gif -gtk iconv -ipv6 -jack -joystick jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -lzo mad -matrox mmx mmxext -musepack -nas -openal opengl -oss png real rtc -samba sdl speex sse sse2 (-svga) -tga theora truetype unicode -v4l -v4l2 vorbis (-win32codecs) x264 -xanim -xinerama xv xvid -xvmc linguas: -bg -cs -da -de -el -en -es -fr -hu -ja -ko -mk -nl -no -pl -pt_BR -ro -ru -sk -tr -uk -zh_CN -zh_TW Total: 1 package (1 rebuild)
It sees invalid version specs as invalid. In this case its behaviour is correct. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 166522 ***
Then the mplayer ebuild should take an other version which is valid.
Bug #166522 was closed as INVALID and multiply suffixes are now supported.
And supported they have been for a while now.