portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://mail-client/mailx-support-20060102-r3:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://mail-client/mailx-support-20060102-r3
│ └─ file ─┤ 8.62 Kb mailx-support-20060102.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ install portage://mail-client/mailx-support-20060102-r3
└─step 3─┤ run portage://mail-client/mailx-support-20060102-r3
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
8.62 Kb to be downloaded.