portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://net-mail/courier-common-3.1.5-r2:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://net-libs/courier-unicode-2.3.2
│ └─ file ─┤ 642.95 Kb courier-unicode-2.3.2.tar.bz2
│ download portage://net-mail/courier-common-3.1.5-r2
│ └─ file ─┤ 2.06 Mb maildrop-3.1.5.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ install portage://net-libs/courier-unicode-2.3.2
│ └─ conf ─┤ SLOT = "0/7"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://net-libs/courier-unicode-2.3.2
└─step 4─┤ install portage://net-mail/courier-common-3.1.5-r2
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "gdbm* -berkdb*"
└─step 5─┤ run portage://net-mail/courier-common-3.1.5-r2
Total: 6 actions (2 downloads, 2 installs, 2 runs), grouped into 5 steps.
2.68 Mb to be downloaded.