portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://net-analyzer/monitoring-plugins-3.0.3:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://net-analyzer/monitoring-plugins-3.0.3
│ └─ file ─┤ 2.87 Mb monitoring-plugins-3.0.3.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://net-analyzer/monitoring-plugins-3.0.3
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "ipv6 ssh* filecaps -curl -dns -fping -game -ldap -mysql -postgres -radius -rpc -samba -snmp -suid"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://net-analyzer/monitoring-plugins-3.0.3
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
2.87 Mb to be downloaded.