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

Calculating dependencies ... done!
Dependency resolution took 1.19 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild  N     ] media-libs/alsa-topology-conf-1.2.5.1-r1::gentoo  USE="-verify-sig" 12 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] media-libs/alsa-ucm-conf-1.2.16.1::gentoo  USE="-verify-sig" 83 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] net-libs/mbedtls-3.6.5:3/16.21.7::gentoo  USE="threads -doc -programs -static-libs -test" CPU_FLAGS_X86="sse2" 5242 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.2.16.1::gentoo  USE="python -debug -doc -verify-sig" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_14 -python3_12 -python3_13 (-python3_15)" 1104 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] net-libs/liblockfile-1.17::gentoo  USE="-static-libs" 69 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-eselect/eselect-ctags-1.20::gentoo  9 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-eselect/eselect-emacs-1.20::gentoo  0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-emacs/emacs-common-1.14::gentoo  USE="-games -gsettings -gui" 66 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-editors/emacs-31.1-r2:31::gentoo  USE="X acl alsa cairo dbus dynamic-loading gif gmp gpm harfbuzz inotify jpeg png sqlite ssl threads tiff xattr xpm zlib -Xaw3d (-aqua) -athena -games -gfile -gsettings -gtk -gui -gzip-el -imagemagick -jit -lcms -libxml2 -livecd -m17n-lib -mailutils -motif (-selinux) -sound -source -svg (-systemd) -toolkit-scroll-bars -tree-sitter -valgrind -webp -wide-int -xft -xwidgets" 56622 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-emacs/fsm-0.2.1::gentoo  6 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-emacs/keymap-popup-0.3.0::gentoo  40 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-emacs/emacs-jabber-0.11.1::gentoo  440 KiB

Total: 12 packages (12 new), Size of downloads: 63688 KiB

The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
 (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by app-emacs/emacs-jabber-0.11.1::gentoo
# required by =app-emacs/emacs-jabber-0.11.1 (argument)
>=app-editors/emacs-31.1-r2 dynamic-loading