chrootsabayonx86 / $ echo =app-shells/bash-3.2_p33 >> /etc/portage/package.mask
chrootsabayonx86 / $ USE="symlink" emerge -pv  gentoo-sources syslog-ng grub vixie-cron slocate eix pinfo pciutils portage-utils gentoolkit screen genkernel

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

Calculating dependencies... done!

[ebuild  N    ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r2  USE="symlink -build" 45,707 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/eventlog-0.2.7  315 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-util/pkgconfig-0.22  USE="-hardened" 982 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/glib-2.14.6  USE="-debug -doc -hardened" 3,326 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/syslog-ng-2.0.8  USE="ipv6 tcpd -hardened -spoof-source -static" 369 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-4-r3 [3.2] 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/m4-1.4.10-r1 [1.4.4] USE="nls -examples%" 721 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.61-r1 [2.59-r7] USE="-emacs" 1,364 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-3-r1 [1-r1] 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.05  7 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/help2man-1.36.4  USE="nls" 83 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.10.1  896 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-boot/grub-0.97-r3  USE="-custom-cflags -netboot -static" 1,006 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-mail/mailbase-1  USE="pam" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2  USE="ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper -md5sum" 52 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-process/cronbase-0.3.2-r1  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r10  USE="pam -debug" 57 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/slocate-3.1-r1  36 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-portage/eix-0.10.3  USE="-sqlite" 379 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-text/pinfo-0.6.9  USE="nls readline" 437 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/pciutils-2.2.9  USE="zlib -network-cron" 228 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29  77 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2 [1.2.17] 231 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p17-r1 [3.1_p16] USE="nls -afs -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla%" 2,521 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 [2.1-r2] USE="-build -doc -epydoc%" LINGUAS="-pl" 367 kB
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[ebuild  N    ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4_pre7  88 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.30-r1  USE="ipv6 python readline -bootstrap -build -debug -doc -test" 4,615 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.17 [0.14.4] USE="nls openmp% -acl% -doc -emacs -nocxx%" 11,368 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.5  461 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1 [5.94-r1] USE="nls -acl -static -xattr%" 3,669 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] dev-lang/python-2.5.1-r5  USE="berkdb gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline ssl -bootstrap -build -doc -examples -nothreads -sqlite -tk -ucs2" 9,173 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/python-updater-0.4  3 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-misc/screen-4.0.3  USE="pam -debug -multiuser -nethack" 820 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.10_pre1  USE="-bash-completion" 6,519 kB

Total size of downloads: 95,892 kB