portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://media-libs/aften-0.0.8-r3:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://media-libs/aften-0.0.8-r3
│ └─ file ─┤ 78.97 Kb aften-0.0.8.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ install portage://media-libs/aften-0.0.8-r3
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-cxx"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://media-libs/aften-0.0.8-r3
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
78.97 Kb to be downloaded.