cosmos portage # emerge -pv pwdb cracklib pam
   
      
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
         
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.61-r4  -selinux
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3-r1
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r7
[ebuild  N    ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3  -3dfx +sse +mmx -3dnow +xml2
+truetype +nls -cjk +doc -ipv6 -debug -static +pam -sdk -gatos
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/tcl-8.3.4
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/tk-8.3.4-r1
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5  +ncurses +gdbm +readline
+tcltk +berkdb -build +doc +ssl
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/java-config-1.1.7
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1  +doc
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2 [1.85-r1] +tcltk +java +doc
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/pam-0.75-r11  +berkdb -selinux