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

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[ebuild  N     ] app-arch/cpio-2.14::gentoo  USE="nls" 1486 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-alternatives/cpio-0::gentoo  USE="gnu (split-usr) -libarchive" 0 KiB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1486 KiB