portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://net-mail/courier-common-3.3.0:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://net-libs/courier-unicode-2.6.0
│ └─ file ─┤ 690.86 Kb courier-unicode-2.6.0.tar.bz2
│ download portage://net-mail/courier-common-3.3.0
│ └─ file ─┤ 2.33 Mb maildrop-3.3.0.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ install portage://net-libs/courier-unicode-2.6.0
│ └─ conf ─┤ SLOT = "0/10"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://net-libs/courier-unicode-2.6.0
└─step 4─┤ install portage://net-mail/courier-common-3.3.0
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "gdbm* -berkdb*"
└─step 5─┤ run portage://net-mail/courier-common-3.3.0
Total: 6 actions (2 downloads, 2 installs, 2 runs), grouped into 5 steps.
3.01 Mb to be downloaded.