# emerge -pv vlc

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/vlc-0.8.6  USE="X a52 alsa cdda cddb dts dvb dvd flac hal httpd libnotify matroska mp3 mpeg ncurses nsplugin ogg opengl oss png rtsp samba sdl speex svg theora truetype vorbis wxwindows xml xv -3dfx -aalib (-altivec) -arts -avahi -bidi -corba -daap -debug -directfb -esd -fbcon -ggi -gnutls -libcaca -lirc -live -mod -optimisememory -seamonkey -shout -skins -stream -svga -upnp -v4l -vcd -vlm -win32codecs -xinerama -xosd" 0 kB