>>> 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

 └─step  2─┤ install   portage://dev-libs/protobuf-21.12
             │           └─ conf ─┤ USE = "zlib -emacs -examples -test"
             │                    │ SLOT = "0/3.21.12.0"

 └─step  3─┤ run     portage://dev-libs/protobuf-21.12

Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
       4.90 Mb to be downloaded.