portage-ng / portage / dev-lang / swig / 4.1.1-r1
emerge -vp

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies ... done!
Dependency resolution took 1.52 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild     UD ] dev-lang/swig-4.1.1-r1::gentoo [4.3.1::gentoo] USE="pcre -ccache -doc -test" 8400 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 8400 KiB

Wall time
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