portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://sci-libs/gaul-devel-0.1849-r2:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://sci-libs/gaul-devel-0.1849-r2
│ └─ file ─┤ 407.06 Kb gaul-devel-0.1849-0.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ install portage://sci-libs/gaul-devel-0.1849-r2
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-slang"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://sci-libs/gaul-devel-0.1849-r2
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
407.06 Kb to be downloaded.