portage-ng / portage / dev-libs / json-c / 0.19-r2
emerge -vp

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

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Dependency resolution took 1.49 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild     U  ] dev-libs/json-c-0.19-r2:0/5.1::gentoo [0.18:0/5.1::gentoo] USE="threads -static-libs -test (-doc%)" CPU_FLAGS_X86="rdrand" 452 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 452 KiB

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