portage-ng / portage / sys-devel / gettext / 0.23.1-r1
emerge -vp

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

Calculating dependencies ... done!
Dependency resolution took 1.54 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild     UD ] sys-devel/gettext-0.23.1-r1::gentoo [0.23.2::gentoo] USE="acl cxx git ncurses nls openmp xattr -doc -emacs -java -static-libs -verify-sig" 10780 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 10780 KiB

Wall time
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