portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://net-p2p/automatic-0.9.0-r1:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4
│ └─ file ─┤ 1.51 Mb pcre-8.45.tar.bz2
│ download portage://net-p2p/automatic-0.9.0-r1
│ └─ file ─┤ 101.65 Kb automatic-0.9.0.gh.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://acct-group/automatic-0-r2
│ install portage://dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "bzip2 pcre16* readline zlib (unicode) cxx jit -libedit -pcre32 -static-libs -valgrind"
│ │ SLOT = "3"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://acct-group/automatic-0-r2
│ run portage://dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4
└─step 4─┤ install portage://acct-user/automatic-0-r2
└─step 5─┤ run portage://acct-user/automatic-0-r2
└─step 6─┤ install portage://net-p2p/automatic-0.9.0-r1
└─step 7─┤ run portage://net-p2p/automatic-0.9.0-r1
Total: 10 actions (2 downloads, 4 installs, 4 runs), grouped into 7 steps.
1.60 Mb to be downloaded.