portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-libs/libxml2-compat-2.13.9:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-libs/libxml2-compat-2.13.9
│ └─ file ─┤ 2.31 Mb libxml2-2.13.9.tar.xz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-libs/libxml2-compat-2.13.9
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "readline -icu -lzma -test"
│ │ SLOT = "2"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-libs/libxml2-compat-2.13.9
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
2.31 Mb to be downloaded.