portage-ng / portage / sys-devel / gettext / 0.22.5-r2
emerge -vp

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

Calculating dependencies ... done!
Dependency resolution took 1.55 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild     UD ] sys-devel/gettext-0.22.5-r2::gentoo [0.23.2::gentoo] USE="acl cxx git ncurses nls openmp xattr -doc -emacs -java -static-libs -verify-sig" 10031 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 10031 KiB

Wall time
2.540 s vs. 0.022 s for portage-ng