portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://app-misc/sonypid-1.9.1:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://app-misc/sonypid-1.9.1
│ └─ file ─┤ 9.85 Kb sonypid-1.9.1.tar.bz2
│ download portage://x11-libs/libXtst-1.2.5
│ └─ file ─┤ 284.91 Kb libXtst-1.2.5.tar.xz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://x11-libs/libXtst-1.2.5
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-doc"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://x11-libs/libXtst-1.2.5
└─step 4─┤ install portage://app-misc/sonypid-1.9.1
└─step 5─┤ run portage://app-misc/sonypid-1.9.1
Total: 6 actions (2 downloads, 2 installs, 2 runs), grouped into 5 steps.
294.76 Kb to be downloaded.