portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-perl/XML-Entities-1.0.200-r1:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-perl/XML-Entities-1.0.200-r1
│ └─ file ─┤ 20.16 Kb XML-Entities-1.0002.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-perl/XML-Entities-1.0.200-r1
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-minimal -test"
│ │ PERL_FEATURES = "ithreads -quadmath"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-perl/XML-Entities-1.0.200-r1
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
20.16 Kb to be downloaded.