portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://net-libs/libesmtp-1.1.0-r2:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://net-libs/libesmtp-1.1.0-r2
│ └─ file ─┤ 165.17 Kb libesmtp-1.1.0.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://net-libs/libesmtp-1.1.0-r2
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "ssl threads* -static-libs"
│ │ SLOT = "0/8"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://net-libs/libesmtp-1.1.0-r2
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
165.17 Kb to be downloaded.