portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4
│ └─ file ─┤ 1.51 Mb pcre-8.45.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "bzip2 pcre16* readline zlib (unicode) cxx jit -libedit -pcre32 -static-libs -valgrind"
│ │ SLOT = "3"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
1.51 Mb to be downloaded.