portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20260309:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ license portage://sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20260309
└─step 2─┤ download portage://app-alternatives/cpio-0
│ download portage://app-arch/cpio-2.15
│ └─ file ─┤ 1.57 Mb cpio-2.15.tar.bz2
│ download portage://sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20260309
│ └─ file ─┤ 582.67 Mb linux-firmware-20260309.tar.xz
└─step 3─┤ install portage://app-arch/cpio-2.15
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "nls"
└─step 4─┤ install portage://app-alternatives/cpio-0
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "gnu -libarchive"
│ run portage://app-arch/cpio-2.15
└─step 5─┤ run portage://app-alternatives/cpio-0
└─step 6─┤ install portage://sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20260309 (license)
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "initramfs redistributable (-unknown-license) -bindist -compress-xz -compress-zstd -deduplicate -dist-kernel
│ │ -savedconfig"
└─step 7─┤ run portage://sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20260309
Total: 10 actions (1 license, 3 downloads, 3 installs, 3 runs), grouped into 7 steps.
584.24 Mb to be downloaded.
>>> Assumptions taken during proving & planning:
License acceptance (1 package):
Add to /etc/portage/package.license:
==sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20260309 BSD BSD-2 BSD-4 GPL-2 GPL-2+ GPL-3 ISC MIT linux-fw-redistributable