portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://sys-apps/gentoo-functions-1.7.7:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://sys-apps/gentoo-functions-1.7.7
│ └─ file ─┤ 30.09 Kb gentoo-functions-1.7.7.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ update portage://sys-apps/gentoo-functions-1.7.7 (replaces pkg://sys-apps/gentoo-functions-1.7.6)
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-test"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://sys-apps/gentoo-functions-1.7.7
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 update, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
30.09 Kb to be downloaded.