portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://app-arch/lbzip2-2.5_p20181227-r3:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://app-arch/lbzip2-2.5_p20181227-r3
│ └─ file ─┤ 688.40 Kb lbzip2-2.5_p20181227.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://app-arch/lbzip2-2.5_p20181227-r3
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-debug -static"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://app-arch/lbzip2-2.5_p20181227-r3
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
688.40 Kb to be downloaded.