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

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[ebuild  N     ] app-text/pandoc-bin-3.12.1::gentoo  USE="pandoc-symlink" 34535 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] virtual/pandoc-0-r1::gentoo  0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-arch/stenc-2.0.0::gentoo  163 KiB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 34698 KiB