portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.31-r3:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.31-r3
│ └─ file ─┤ 6.75 Kb perl-cleaner-2.31.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ update portage://app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.31-r3 (replaces pkg://app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.31-r2)
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-pkgcore"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.31-r3
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 update, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
6.75 Kb to be downloaded.