portage-ng / portage / dev-perl / Search-Xapian / 1.2.25.5-r5
emerge -vp

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

Calculating dependencies ... done!
Dependency resolution took 1.00 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/xapian-2.1.0:0/45::gentoo  USE="-debug -static-libs -verify-sig" CPU_FLAGS_X86="sse sse2" 3439 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/Search-Xapian-1.2.25.5-r5::gentoo  USE="-examples -test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 74 KiB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 3512 KiB

Wall time
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