These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies . ...done! 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[ebuild N ] app-arch/unzip-5.50-r2 [ebuild N ] net-dns/bind-tools-9.2.3-r1 [ebuild N ] app-misc/dnetc-2.9008.490 [ebuild N ] net-misc/wget-1.9-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/pciutils-2.1.11-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/procps-3.2.4-r1 [ebuild N ] app-editors/emacs-21.3-r3 [ebuild N ] app-arch/cpio-2.5 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/make-3.80-r1 [ebuild N ] app-arch/gzip-1.3.5-r5 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/which-2.16 [ebuild N ] dev-util/yacc-1.9.1-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r8 [ebuild N ] net-misc/openssh-3.9_p1-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/bin86-0.16.16 [ebuild N ] media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r9 [ebuild N ] sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.19 [ebuild N ] media-libs/svgalib-1.9.19-r1 [ebuild N ] media-libs/libpng-1.2.7-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-util/pkgconfig-0.15.0 [ebuild N ] net-www/links-2.1_pre15 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 [ebuild N ] app-text/tree-1.5.0 [ebuild N ] media-sound/lame-3.96.1 [ebuild N ] app-arch/ncompress-4.2.4-r1 [ebuild N ] app-arch/tar-1.14 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/psmisc-21.4 [ebuild N ] app-accessibility/flite-1.2-r1 [ebuild N ] net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r5 [ebuild N ] app-text/recode-3.6-r1 [ebuild N ] games-misc/fortune-mod-1.99.1 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libpcre-4.5 [ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nmap-3.75 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.15-r1 [ebuild N ] app-editors/nano-1.3.4 [ebuild N ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r6 [ebuild N ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.60.9 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/vixie-cron-4.1-r4 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/less-382-r2 [ebuild N ] media-libs/libogg-1.1.2 [ebuild N ] media-libs/libvorbis-1.1.0 [ebuild N ] media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b [ebuild N ] media-libs/libmad-0.15.1b [ebuild N ] media-sound/madplay-0.15.2b [ebuild N ] media-sound/sox-12.17.5-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r3 [ebuild N ] media-sound/rexima-1.4 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.62 [ebuild N ] dev-lang/tcl-8.4.6 [ebuild N ] dev-tcltk/tclx-8.3.5 [ebuild N ] app-accessibility/emacspeak-20 [ebuild N ] app-accessibility/emacspeak-ss-1.9.1 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.0-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/file-4.12 [ebuild N ] net-libs/libpcap-0.8.3-r1 [ebuild N ] net-analyzer/trafshow-3.1-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/findutils-4.1.20-r1 [ebuild N ] app-accessibility/speech-tools-1.2.3-r1 [ebuild N ] app-accessibility/festival-1.4.3-r2 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libsigsegv-2.1 [ebuild N ] app-admin/sysklogd-1.4.1-r11 [ebuild N ] app-admin/realpath-1.9.16 [ebuild N ] dev-lisp/common-lisp-controller-3.91 [ebuild N ] dev-lisp/cl-defsystem3-3.3i-r4 [ebuild N ] dev-lisp/cl-asdf-1.86 [ebuild N ] dev-lisp/clisp-2.33.2-r1 [ebuild N ] net-misc/iputils-021109-r3 [ebuild N ] net-www/lynx-2.8.5 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/ed-0.2-r6 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/lsof-4.71 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r9 [ebuild N ] net-analyzer/ngrep-1.42 [ebuild N ] net-im/centericq-4.9.12 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/glib-2.4.8 [ebuild N ] dev-lang/tinycobol-0.61 [ebuild N ] sys-boot/grub-0.94-r1 [ebuild N ] app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01 [ebuild N ] sys-fs/squashfs-tools-2.0_p2 [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/genkernel-3.1.0c [ebuild N ] dev-util/ccache-2.3 [ebuild N ] app-misc/zisofs-tools-1.0.4-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-util/catalyst-1.1.1 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/popt-1.7-r1 [ebuild N ] net-misc/rsync-2.6.3 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/slocate-2.7-r5 [ebuild N ] app-misc/beep-1.2.2 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.01-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/help2man-1.33.1 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/hdparm-5.7-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-fs/devfsd-1.3.25-r8 [ebuild N ] media-libs/jpeg-mmx-1.1.2-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r5