portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-libs/elfutils-0.196-r1:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-libs/elfutils-0.196-r1
│ └─ file ─┤ 11.60 Mb elfutils-0.196.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ update portage://dev-libs/elfutils-0.196-r1 (replaces pkg://dev-libs/elfutils-0.194)
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "bzip2 nls debuginfod libarchive lzma utils -libpfm% -stackprof% -static-libs -test -valgrind -verify-sig -zstd"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-libs/elfutils-0.196-r1
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 update, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
11.60 Mb to be downloaded.