portage-ng / portage / sys-boot / grub / 2.12-r12
emerge -vp

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

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Dependency resolution took 1.10 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild  N     ] sys-fs/lvm2-2.03.39::gentoo  USE="readline udev -lvm -nvme -sanlock (-selinux) -static -static-libs (-systemd) -test -thin -valgrind -vdo -xfs" 2811 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-boot/grub-themes-gentoo-1.0-r2::gentoo  5117 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-boot/grub-2.12-r12:2/2.12-r12::gentoo  USE="branding device-mapper fonts nls themes truetype -doc -efiemu -libzfs -mount -sdl -secureboot (-test) -verify-sig" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64 pc -coreboot -efi-32 -emu -ieee1275 (-loongson) -multiboot -qemu (-qemu-mips) -uboot -xen -xen-32 -xen-pvh" 8258 KiB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 16184 KiB

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