# emerge -pv python

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[blocks B     ] <dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.2)

[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-4-r3  0 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/m4-1.4.10 [1.4-r1] USE="nls -examples%" 721 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.61-r1 [2.58-r1] USE="-emacs%" 1,364 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-3-r1  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/libintl-0  0 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5 [4.5] USE="nls -build -static%" 1,486 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.10  872 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6  USE="berkdb gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline ssl -bootstrap -build -doc -examples -nocxx -nothreads -tk -ucs2" 7,976 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2 [1.2.17] 231 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.16  USE="-caps" 63 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p17-r1 [3.1_p16] USE="nls -afs -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla% (-build%)" 2,521 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 [2.0.50-r6] USE="-build -doc% -epydoc% (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl%" 367 kB
*** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself,
    then resume the merge.
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/python-updater-0.2  2 kB
[ebuild     U ] net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r5 [2.6.0] USE="acl%* ipv6%* -static% -xinetd%" 792 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.30-r1  USE="ipv6 python readline -bootstrap -build -debug -doc -test" 4,615 kB
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/libiconv-0  0 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.17 [0.12.1] USE="acl%* nls openmp%* -doc% -emacs% -nocxx%" 11,368 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 [5.0.91-r4] USE="acl nls (-selinux) -static -xattr% (-build%)" 5,306 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6  USE="-bindist -gmp -test" 150 kB

Total size of downloads: 37,840 kB