portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://dev-util/diffball-1.0.1-r2:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-util/diffball-1.0.1-r2
│ └─ file ─┤ 2.88 Kb diffball-1.0.1-bug_543310_stack_buffer_overflows.patch
│ │ 1.02 Kb diffball-1.0.1-bug_708736_cseek_xz_reset_avail_in_out.patch
│ │ 84.36 Kb diffball-1.0.1.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-util/diffball-1.0.1-r2
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-debug"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-util/diffball-1.0.1-r2
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
88.25 Kb to be downloaded.