portage-ng / portage / sys-devel / binutils-config / 5.5.3
emerge -vp

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

Calculating dependencies ... done!
Dependency resolution took 1.49 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild     UD ] sys-devel/binutils-config-5.5.3::gentoo [5.6::gentoo] USE="(native-symlinks)" 8 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 8 KiB

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