portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://media-libs/plotutils-2.6-r3:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://media-libs/libxmi-1.3-r2
│ └─ file ─┤ 252.61 Kb libxmi-1.3.tar.xz
│ download portage://media-libs/plotutils-2.6-r3
│ └─ file ─┤ 3.49 Mb plotutils-2.6.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://media-libs/libxmi-1.3-r2
└─step 3─┤ run portage://media-libs/libxmi-1.3-r2
└─step 4─┤ install portage://media-libs/plotutils-2.6-r3
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "X* png*"
└─step 5─┤ run portage://media-libs/plotutils-2.6-r3
Total: 6 actions (2 downloads, 2 installs, 2 runs), grouped into 5 steps.
3.73 Mb to be downloaded.