filomena ~ # USE="-*" emerge -pe asterisk
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/patch-2.5.9-r1
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r1
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.4.20050319
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.8
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/groff-1.19.1-r2
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.7
[ebuild N ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.7-r1
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7g
[ebuild N ] sys-process/cronbase-0.3.2
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/man-1.6a
[ebuild N ] app-shells/bash-3.0-r12
[ebuild N ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.01
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/popt-1.7-r1
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/expat-1.95.8
[ebuild N ] dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1
[ebuild N ] dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/slang-1.4.9-r2
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/newt-0.51.6-r1
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/binutils-config-1.8-r5
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20050602
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/m4-1.4.3
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/bison-2.1
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/sed-4.1.4
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r2
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6
[ebuild N ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.11-r2
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r1
[ebuild N ] media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r10
[ebuild N ] media-sound/sox-12.17.7-r2
[ebuild N ] net-misc/asterisk-1.0.9-r1