portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://sys-apps/kbd-2.9.0-r2:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://sys-apps/kbd-2.9.0-r2
│ └─ file ─┤ 1.46 Mb kbd-2.9.0.tar.xz
└─step 2─┤ update portage://sys-apps/kbd-2.9.0-r2 (replaces pkg://sys-apps/kbd-2.9.0-r1)
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "bzip2 nls pam zlib -lzma -test -zstd"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://sys-apps/kbd-2.9.0-r2
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 update, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
1.46 Mb to be downloaded.