portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://app-text/pandoc-bin-3.12:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://app-text/pandoc-bin-3.12
│ └─ file ─┤ 33.69 Mb pandoc-3.12-linux-amd64.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://app-text/pandoc-bin-3.12
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "pandoc-symlink"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://app-text/pandoc-bin-3.12
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
33.69 Mb to be downloaded.