portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://net-nntp/suck-4.3.5:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://net-nntp/suck-4.3.5
│ └─ file ─┤ 150.27 Kb suck-4.3.5.tar.gz
│ download portage://sys-libs/db-6.0.35-r5
│ └─ file ─┤ 34.84 Mb db-6.0.35.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://sys-libs/db-6.0.35-r5
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-cxx -doc -examples -tcl -test"
│ │ SLOT = "6.0"
└─step 3─┤ install portage://net-nntp/suck-4.3.5
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "ssl -perl"
└─step 4─┤ run portage://net-nntp/suck-4.3.5
Total: 5 actions (2 downloads, 2 installs, 1 run), grouped into 4 steps.
34.99 Mb to be downloaded.