portage-ng / portage / dev-perl / XML-SAX / 1.20.0-r2
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-perl/XML-SAX-Base-1.90.0-r1::gentoo  USE="-test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 28 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.120.0-r1::gentoo  USE="-test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 18 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/XML-SAX-1.20.0-r2::gentoo  USE="-test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 47 KiB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 92 KiB

Wall time
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