portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-perl/Date-Manip-6.990.0:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-perl/Date-Manip-6.990.0
│ └─ file ─┤ 1.78 Mb Date-Manip-6.99.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ update portage://dev-perl/Date-Manip-6.990.0 (replaces pkg://dev-perl/Date-Manip-6.980.0)
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-test"
│ │ PERL_FEATURES = "ithreads -quadmath"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-perl/Date-Manip-6.990.0
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 update, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
1.78 Mb to be downloaded.