How to choose python version to install in gentoo

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Published on 2010-05-27T13:18:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 13:22 UTC
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Hello, I'm using linux gentoo and i want to install python2.5 but it's a problem. emerge -av python shows

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r3 [3.1.1-r1] USE="gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline ssl threads (wide-unicode%*) xml -build -doc -examples -sqlite* -tk -wininst (-ucs2%)" 9,558 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-admin/python-updater-0.8 [0.7] 8 kB

and there are ebuild for more versions:

# ls /usr/portage/dev-lang/python
ChangeLog  
files  
Manifest  
metadata.xml  
python-2.4.6.ebuild  
python-2.5.4-r4.ebuild  
python-2.6.4-r1.ebuild  
python-2.6.5-r2.ebuild  
python-3.1.2-r3.ebuild

How to choose ebuild that I want? (python-2.5.4-r4)

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