portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://sys-apps/readahead-list-1.20060421.1016-r4:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://sys-apps/readahead-list-1.20060421.1016-r4
│ └─ file ─┤ 105.80 Kb readahead-list-1.20060421.1016.tar.bz2
└─step 2─┤ install portage://sys-apps/readahead-list-1.20060421.1016-r4
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-doc"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://sys-apps/readahead-list-1.20060421.1016-r4
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
105.80 Kb to be downloaded.