portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://sys-apps/the_silver_searcher-2.2.0_p20201217-r4:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4
│ └─ file ─┤ 1.51 Mb pcre-8.45.tar.bz2
│ download portage://sys-apps/the_silver_searcher-2.2.0_p20201217-r4
│ └─ file ─┤ 161.36 Kb the_silver_searcher-2.2.0_p20201217.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "bzip2 pcre16* readline zlib (unicode) cxx jit -libedit -pcre32 -static-libs -valgrind"
│ │ SLOT = "3"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4
└─step 4─┤ install portage://sys-apps/the_silver_searcher-2.2.0_p20201217-r4
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "zlib -lzma -test"
└─step 5─┤ run portage://sys-apps/the_silver_searcher-2.2.0_p20201217-r4
Total: 6 actions (2 downloads, 2 installs, 2 runs), grouped into 5 steps.
1.66 Mb to be downloaded.