>>> Emerging : portage://dev-libs/protobuf-21.12:run?{[]}

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

 └─step  1─┤ download  portage://dev-libs/protobuf-21.12
             │           └─ file ─┤ 4.90 Mb  	 protobuf-21.12.tar.gz

Total: 1 action (1 download), grouped into 1 step.
       4.90 Mb to be downloaded.