portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://games-util/loki_patch-20091105-r2:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-util/xdelta-1.2.1
│ └─ file ─┤ 115.62 Kb xdelta-1.2.1.tar.gz
│ download portage://games-util/loki_patch-20091105-r2
│ └─ file ─┤ 323.95 Kb loki_patch-20091105.tar.bz2
│ │ 59.30 Kb loki_setupdb-20091105.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-util/xdelta-1.2.1
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-test"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-util/xdelta-1.2.1
└─step 4─┤ install portage://games-util/loki_patch-20091105-r2
└─step 5─┤ run portage://games-util/loki_patch-20091105-r2
Total: 6 actions (2 downloads, 2 installs, 2 runs), grouped into 5 steps.
498.87 Kb to be downloaded.