portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://app-arch/pax-20201030:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://app-alternatives/cpio-0
│ download portage://app-arch/cpio-2.15
│ └─ file ─┤ 1.57 Mb cpio-2.15.tar.bz2
│ download portage://app-arch/pax-20201030
│ └─ file ─┤ 167.95 Kb paxmirabilis-20201030.cpio.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://app-arch/cpio-2.15
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "nls"
└─step 3─┤ install portage://app-alternatives/cpio-0
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "gnu -libarchive"
│ run portage://app-arch/cpio-2.15
└─step 4─┤ run portage://app-alternatives/cpio-0
└─step 5─┤ install portage://app-arch/pax-20201030
└─step 6─┤ run portage://app-arch/pax-20201030
Total: 9 actions (3 downloads, 3 installs, 3 runs), grouped into 6 steps.
1.74 Mb to be downloaded.