portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-libs/libpcre2-10.49:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-libs/libpcre2-10.49
│ └─ file ─┤ 2.08 Mb pcre2-10.49.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ update portage://dev-libs/libpcre2-10.49 (replaces pkg://dev-libs/libpcre2-10.47)
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "bzip2 pcre16* readline unicode zlib jit pcre32 -libedit -static-libs -valgrind -verify-sig"
│ │ SLOT = "0/3"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-libs/libpcre2-10.49
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 update, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
2.08 Mb to be downloaded.