portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-lang/gnucobol-3.2-r2:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-lang/gnucobol-3.2-r2
│ └─ file ─┤ 2.77 Mb gnucobol-3.2.tar.xz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-lang/gnucobol-3.2-r2
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "json* nls -berkdb* -xml"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-lang/gnucobol-3.2-r2
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
2.77 Mb to be downloaded.