portage-ng / portage / dev-libs / libpcre / 8.45-r4
emerge -vp

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

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[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4:3::gentoo  USE="bzip2 cxx jit pcre16 readline (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre32 -static-libs -valgrind" 1542 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 1542 KiB

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