portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://app-emulation/x48-0.6.4-r3:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://app-emulation/x48-0.6.4-r3
│ └─ file ─┤ 222.65 Kb x48-0.6.4.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ install portage://app-emulation/x48-0.6.4-r3
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "readline"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://app-emulation/x48-0.6.4-r3
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
222.65 Kb to be downloaded.