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

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[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/patch-2.5.9-r1 [2.5.9] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.14.5 [0.14.4] USE="-nocxx%" 
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.5-r2 [5.4-r6] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r3 [4.8-r2] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/groff-1.19.2-r1 [1.19.1-r2] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/man-1.6c [1.6-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/binutils-config-1.8-r7 [1.8-r6] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20060227 [20051223] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1-r2 [2.16.1] USE="-vanilla%" 
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-libs/db-4.3.29  USE="-bootstrap -doc -java -nocxx -tcltk" 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/m4-1.4.4 [1.4.3] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-3.2 [3-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r7 [2.59-r6] 
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Test-Simple-0.62  
[ebuild     U ] dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.05 [1.03] USE="-minimal%" 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/help2man-1.35.1 [1.33.1] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.96 [5.2.1-r6] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r2 [1.9.6-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] app-shells/bash-3.1_p17 [3.0-r12] 
[ebuild     U ] dev-libs/expat-2.0.0 [1.95.8] 
[ebuild     U ] app-arch/bzip2-1.0.3-r6 [1.0.3-r5] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/readline-5.1_p4 [5.0-r2] 
[ebuild     U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7j [0.9.7e-r2] 
[ebuild     U ] dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r1 [2.4.2] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/file-4.17-r1 [4.13] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/sed-4.1.5 [4.1.4] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.9 [2.8.5] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/flex-2.5.33-r1 [2.5.4a-r6] USE="nls%" 
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r6 [0.78-r3] 
[ebuild     U ] x11-libs/libdrm-2.1_alpha20060313 [2.0.1] 
[ebuild     U ] app-crypt/hashalot-0.3-r2 [0.3-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.11-r3 [2.6.11-r2] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.38-r1 [1.38] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r-r4 [2.12r-r1] 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2006g  
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.13-r2 [1.3.12-r6] 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/gmp-4.2  USE="-doc -nocxx" 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/bison-2.2 [1.875d] 
[ebuild     UD] app-text/poppler-0.5.1-r1 [0.5.2] 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/mpfr-2.2.0_p10  
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1  USE="fortran gcj gtk nls -bootstrap -build -doc -hardened -ip28 -mudflap -multislot -nocxx -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -vanilla" 
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r3 [2.3.5-r2] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1 [1.2.12] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/debianutils-2.15-r1 [2.14.1-r1] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r5 [2.86-r3] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0-r1 [1.11.14-r3] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.2.2-r1 [3.0-r2] USE="-no-old-linux%" 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/make-3.81 [3.80-r2] 
[ebuild     U ] sys-fs/udev-090 [079-r1]