portage-ng / portage / x11-wm / i3 / 4.25.1
emerge -vp

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

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Dependency resolution took 1.18 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild  N     ] x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-2.48::gentoo  USE="-test" 931 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/libev-4.33::gentoo  USE="-static-libs" 557 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/yajl-2.1.0-r6:0/2::gentoo  83 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-libs/xcb-util-0.4.1::gentoo  262 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/common-sense-3.750.0::gentoo  PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 14 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/Canary-Stability-2013.0.0::gentoo  PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 5 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-libs/libxkbcommon-1.13.2::gentoo  USE="X -doc -static-libs -test -tools -wayland" 1215 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-libs/xcb-util-wm-0.4.2::gentoo  279 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-libs/xcb-util-renderutil-0.3.10::gentoo  256 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-libs/startup-notification-0.12-r2::gentoo  347 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-libs/xcb-util-xrm-1.3-r2::gentoo  320 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/Types-Serialiser-1.10.0::gentoo  USE="-test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 7 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/AnyEvent-7.170.0::gentoo  USE="-test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 298 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-libs/xcb-util-image-0.4.1::gentoo  283 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/JSON-XS-4.40.0::gentoo  USE="-examples -test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 86 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-libs/xcb-util-cursor-0.1.6::gentoo  267 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/AnyEvent-I3-0.190.0::gentoo  USE="-test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 10 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-wm/i3-4.25.1::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" 1326 KiB

Total: 18 packages (18 new), Size of downloads: 6537 KiB

Wall time
2.168 s vs. 0.190 s for portage-ng