portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://sys-apps/vbetool-1.2.2:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://dev-libs/libx86-1.1-r6
│ └─ file ─┤ 85.38 Kb libx86-1.1.tar.gz
│ download portage://sys-apps/vbetool-1.2.2
│ └─ file ─┤ 21.52 Kb vbetool-1.2.2.tar.xz
│ download portage://x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.19
│ └─ file ─┤ 63.21 Kb libpciaccess-0.19.tar.xz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://dev-libs/libx86-1.1-r6
│ install portage://x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.19
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "zlib -static-libs"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://dev-libs/libx86-1.1-r6
│ run portage://x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.19
└─step 4─┤ install portage://sys-apps/vbetool-1.2.2
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = ""
└─step 5─┤ run portage://sys-apps/vbetool-1.2.2
Total: 9 actions (3 downloads, 3 installs, 3 runs), grouped into 5 steps.
170.11 Kb to be downloaded.