portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://sys-apps/iotools-1.5:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://sys-apps/iotools-1.5
│ └─ file ─┤ 22.87 Kb iotools-1.5.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://sys-apps/iotools-1.5
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-make-symlinks -static"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://sys-apps/iotools-1.5
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
22.87 Kb to be downloaded.