portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://net-misc/iputils-20250605-r4:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://net-misc/iputils-20250605-r4
│ └─ file ─┤ 460.84 Kb iputils-20250605.tar.xz
└─step 2─┤ update portage://net-misc/iputils-20250605-r4 (replaces pkg://net-misc/iputils-20250605-r3)
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "nls arping caps filecaps suid -clockdiff -doc -idn -test -tracepath -verify-sig"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://net-misc/iputils-20250605-r4
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 update, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
460.84 Kb to be downloaded.