portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://media-libs/libmpd-11.8.17-r2:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://media-libs/libmpd-11.8.17-r2
│ └─ file ─┤ 356.46 Kb libmpd-11.8.17.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://media-libs/libmpd-11.8.17-r2
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-doc -static-libs"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://media-libs/libmpd-11.8.17-r2
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
356.46 Kb to be downloaded.