portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://app-text/blahtexml-1.0-r1:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://app-text/blahtexml-1.0-r1
│ └─ file ─┤ 186.75 Kb blahtexml-1.0.tar.gz
│ download portage://dev-libs/xerces-c-3.3.0-r1
│ └─ file ─┤ 4.11 Mb xerces-c-3.3.0.tar.xz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-libs/xerces-c-3.3.0-r1
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "iconv -curl -doc -examples -icu -static-libs -test"
│ │ CPU_FLAGS_X86 = "sse2*"
│ │ SLOT = "0/3.3"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-libs/xerces-c-3.3.0-r1
└─step 4─┤ install portage://app-text/blahtexml-1.0-r1
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-doc"
└─step 5─┤ run portage://app-text/blahtexml-1.0-r1
Total: 6 actions (2 downloads, 2 installs, 2 runs), grouped into 5 steps.
4.29 Mb to be downloaded.