portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://sys-kernel/linux-headers-6.17-r1:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://sys-kernel/linux-headers-6.17-r1
│ └─ file ─┤ 2.19 Kb gentoo-headers-6.17-2.tar.xz
│ │ 146.28 Mb linux-6.17.tar.xz
└─step 2─┤ downgrade portage://sys-kernel/linux-headers-6.17-r1 (replaces pkg://sys-kernel/linux-headers-6.19)
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-headers-only"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://sys-kernel/linux-headers-6.17-r1
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 downgrade, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
146.28 Mb to be downloaded.