portage-ng / portage / sci-libs / hdf / 4.2.15-r2
emerge -vp

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

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Dependency resolution took 1.01 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild  N     ] virtual/jpeg-100-r1::gentoo  USE="-static-libs" 0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] sci-libs/hdf-4.2.15-r2::gentoo  USE="-examples -fortran -static-libs -szip -test" 3570 KiB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 3570 KiB

Wall time
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