portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-libs/libxml2-2.14.6:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-libs/libxml2-2.14.6
│ └─ file ─┤ 2.22 Mb libxml2-2.14.6.tar.xz
└─step 2─┤ downgrade portage://dev-libs/libxml2-2.14.6 (replaces pkg://dev-libs/libxml2-2.15.2)
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "python* readline -icu -static-libs -test"
│ │ PYTHON_TARGETS = "python3_14 -python3_12 -python3_13*"
│ │ SLOT = "2/16"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-libs/libxml2-2.14.6
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 downgrade, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
2.22 Mb to be downloaded.