portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://app-text/rarian-0.8.4:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://app-text/rarian-0.8.4
│ └─ file ─┤ 393.33 Kb rarian-0.8.4.tar.bz2
│ download portage://dev-libs/tinyxml-2.6.2-r5
│ └─ file ─┤ 205.20 Kb tinyxml_2_6_2.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-libs/tinyxml-2.6.2-r5
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "stl -debug -doc -static-libs"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-libs/tinyxml-2.6.2-r5
└─step 4─┤ install portage://app-text/rarian-0.8.4
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-test"
└─step 5─┤ run portage://app-text/rarian-0.8.4
Total: 6 actions (2 downloads, 2 installs, 2 runs), grouped into 5 steps.
598.53 Kb to be downloaded.