portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://app-misc/sphinx-2.2.11-r5:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://app-misc/sphinx-2.2.11-r5
│ └─ file ─┤ 2.92 Mb sphinx-2.2.11-release.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://app-misc/sphinx-2.2.11-r5
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "id64 -debug -mariadb -mysql -odbc -postgres -stemmer -syslog -xml"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://app-misc/sphinx-2.2.11-r5
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
2.92 Mb to be downloaded.