sophie dave # emerge -uDNavt world

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[nomerge      ] gnome-base/gnome-2.22.3  USE="cdr cups dvdr ldap -accessibility -esd -mono" 
[nomerge      ]  gnome-base/gnome-volume-manager-2.22.5  USE="-automount -debug" 
[ebuild   R   ]   sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r1  USE="X* acpi crypt laptop* -apm -debug -dell -disk-partition -doc (-selinux)" 1,256 kB 
[ebuild  N    ]    sys-power/pm-utils-1.1.2.1  USE="alsa -debug -networkmanager -ntp" VIDEO_CARDS="-i810 -radeon" 155 kB 
[nomerge      ] app-admin/system-config-date-1.9.1  
[nomerge      ]  sys-apps/usermode-1.96  USE="-debug (-selinux)" 
[ebuild   R   ]   sys-libs/libuser-0.56.8  USE="ldap* -quotas -sasl (-selinux)" 0 kB 
[nomerge      ] sys-power/pm-utils-1.1.2.1  USE="alsa -debug -networkmanager -ntp" VIDEO_CARDS="-i810 -radeon" 
[ebuild  N    ]  sys-apps/vbetool-1.0  0 kB 
[ebuild  N    ]   dev-libs/libx86-0.99  0 kB 

Total: 5 packages (3 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 1,410 kB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]