portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-perl/Mail-Sendmail-0.820.0:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-perl/Mail-Sendmail-0.820.0
│ └─ file ─┤ 22.86 Kb Mail-Sendmail-0.82.tar.gz
│ download portage://dev-perl/Sys-Hostname-Long-1.500.0-r2
│ └─ file ─┤ 5.35 Kb Sys-Hostname-Long-1.5.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-perl/Sys-Hostname-Long-1.500.0-r2
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-test"
│ │ PERL_FEATURES = "ithreads -quadmath"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-perl/Sys-Hostname-Long-1.500.0-r2
└─step 4─┤ install portage://dev-perl/Mail-Sendmail-0.820.0
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-test"
│ │ PERL_FEATURES = "ithreads -quadmath"
└─step 5─┤ run portage://dev-perl/Mail-Sendmail-0.820.0
Total: 6 actions (2 downloads, 2 installs, 2 runs), grouped into 5 steps.
28.20 Kb to be downloaded.