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

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[ebuild  N     ] app-arch/cpio-2.15::gentoo  USE="nls" 1613 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-alternatives/cpio-0::gentoo  USE="gnu (split-usr) -libarchive" 0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-arch/rpm2targz-2021.03.16::gentoo  7 KiB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 1619 KiB