portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20220412:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20220412
│ └─ file ─┤ 48.40 Kb bsd-mailx_8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1.debian.tar.xz
│ │ 77.75 Kb bsd-mailx_8.1.2-0.20220412cvs.orig.tar.xz
│ download portage://mail-client/mailx-support-20060102-r3
│ └─ file ─┤ 8.62 Kb mailx-support-20060102.tar.bz2
│ download portage://net-libs/liblockfile-1.17
│ └─ file ─┤ 68.20 Kb liblockfile-1.17.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://net-libs/liblockfile-1.17
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-static-libs"
└─step 3─┤ install portage://mail-client/mailx-support-20060102-r3
│ run portage://net-libs/liblockfile-1.17
└─step 4─┤ run portage://mail-client/mailx-support-20060102-r3
└─step 5─┤ install portage://mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20220412
└─step 6─┤ run portage://mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20220412
Total: 9 actions (3 downloads, 3 installs, 3 runs), grouped into 6 steps.
202.96 Kb to be downloaded.