portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://app-laptop/tpb-0.6.4-r1:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://app-laptop/tpb-0.6.4-r1
│ └─ file ─┤ 273.75 Kb tpb-0.6.4.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://app-laptop/tpb-0.6.4-r1
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "nls -xosd"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://app-laptop/tpb-0.6.4-r1
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
273.75 Kb to be downloaded.