portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://app-portage/emerge-delta-webrsync-3.7.7:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://app-portage/emerge-delta-webrsync-3.7.7
│ └─ file ─┤ 28.36 Kb emerge-delta-webrsync-3.7.7
│ download portage://dev-util/diffball-1.0.1-r2
│ └─ file ─┤ 2.88 Kb diffball-1.0.1-bug_543310_stack_buffer_overflows.patch
│ │ 1.02 Kb diffball-1.0.1-bug_708736_cseek_xz_reset_avail_in_out.patch
│ │ 84.36 Kb diffball-1.0.1.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-util/diffball-1.0.1-r2
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-debug"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-util/diffball-1.0.1-r2
└─step 4─┤ install portage://app-portage/emerge-delta-webrsync-3.7.7
└─step 5─┤ run portage://app-portage/emerge-delta-webrsync-3.7.7
Total: 6 actions (2 downloads, 2 installs, 2 runs), grouped into 5 steps.
116.62 Kb to be downloaded.