portage-ng --merge
>>> Emerging : portage://sys-libs/db-6.0.35-r5:run?{[]}
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
└─step 1─┤ download portage://sys-libs/db-6.0.35-r5
│ └─ file ─┤ 34.84 Mb db-6.0.35.tar.gz
└─step 2─┤ install portage://sys-libs/db-6.0.35-r5
│ └─ conf ─┤ USE = "-cxx -doc -examples -tcl -test"
│ │ SLOT = "6.0"
└─step 3─┤ run portage://sys-libs/db-6.0.35-r5
Total: 3 actions (1 download, 1 install, 1 run), grouped into 3 steps.
34.84 Mb to be downloaded.