portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-lang/swig-4.1.1-r1:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-lang/swig-4.1.1-r1
│ └─ file ─┤ 8.20 Mb swig-4.1.1.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ downgrade portage://dev-lang/swig-4.1.1-r1 (replaces pkg://dev-lang/swig-4.3.1)
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "pcre -ccache -doc -test"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-lang/swig-4.1.1-r1
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 downgrade, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
8.20 Mb to be downloaded.