portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-perl/Canary-Stability-2013.0.0:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-perl/Canary-Stability-2013.0.0
│ └─ file ─┤ 4.75 Kb Canary-Stability-2013.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-perl/Canary-Stability-2013.0.0
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = ""
│ │ PERL_FEATURES = "ithreads -quadmath"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-perl/Canary-Stability-2013.0.0
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
4.75 Kb to be downloaded.