bedazzled@bedazzled ~ $ emerge -pvuD world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     UD] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 [0.36.2] +X -debug +gtk (-mono) +python -qt +xml2 0 kB
[ebuild     UD] sys-apps/hal-0.4.8 [0.5.4] -debug +doc -livecd -pcmcia 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB