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draconis portage # emerge -pdv hal

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

Calculating dependencies  
Parent:    None
Depstring: sys-apps/hal
Candidates: ['sys-apps/hal']
ebuild: sys-apps/hal-20041130
binpkg: None                                                                                                                                                              -
Parent:    ebuild / sys-apps/hal-20041130 merge
Depstring: >=dev-libs/glib-2.2.2 >=sys-apps/dbus-20041130 dev-libs/expat sys-fs/udev sys-apps/hotplug sys-libs/libcap >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.12i sys-kernel/linux26-headers dev-util/pkgconfig !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) >=dev-libs/glib-2.2.2 >=sys-apps/dbus-20041130 dev-libs/expat sys-fs/udev sys-apps/hotplug sys-libs/libcap >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.12i sys-kernel/linux26-headers
Candidates: ['>=sys-apps/dbus-20041130', 'sys-kernel/linux26-headers']
ebuild: sys-apps/dbus-20041130
binpkg: None                                                                                                                                                              \
Parent:    ebuild / sys-apps/dbus-20041130 merge
Depstring: >=dev-libs/glib-2 xml2? ( >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6 ) !xml2? ( dev-libs/expat ) X? ( virtual/x11 ) gtk? ( >=x11-libs/gtk+-2 ) python? ( >=dev-lang/python-2.2 >=dev-python/pyrex-0.9 ) mono? ( >=dev-dotnet/mono-0.95 ) dev-util/pkgconfig !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) >=dev-libs/glib-2 xml2? ( >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6 ) !xml2? ( dev-libs/expat ) X? ( virtual/x11 ) gtk? ( >=x11-libs/gtk+-2 ) python? ( >=dev-lang/python-2.2 >=dev-python/pyrex-0.9 ) mono? ( >=dev-dotnet/mono-0.95 )

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "sys-kernel/linux26-headers".

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