portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://media-libs/fontconfig-2.16.2-r1:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://media-libs/fontconfig-2.16.2-r1
│ └─ file ─┤ 1.24 Mb fontconfig-2.16.2.tar.xz
└─step 2─┤ downgrade portage://media-libs/fontconfig-2.16.2-r1 (replaces pkg://media-libs/fontconfig-2.17.1)
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "nls -doc -test"
│ │ SLOT = "1.0"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://media-libs/fontconfig-2.16.2-r1
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 downgrade, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
1.24 Mb to be downloaded.