portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-db/tokyocabinet-1.4.48-r3:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-db/tokyocabinet-1.4.48-r3
│ └─ file ─┤ 977.04 Kb tokyocabinet-1.4.48.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-db/tokyocabinet-1.4.48-r3
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "bzip2 threads* zlib -debug -doc -examples"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-db/tokyocabinet-1.4.48-r3
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
977.04 Kb to be downloaded.