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

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Dependency resolution took 1.15 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     ] 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     ] media-libs/audiofile-0.3.6-r6:0/1::gentoo  USE="-flac" 519 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/confuse-3.4:0/2.1.0::gentoo  USE="nls -static-libs" 643 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.114::gentoo  USE="-debug -static-libs -test" 721 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] media-libs/libsamplerate-0.2.2::gentoo  USE="-test" 3242 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.2.16:0.9::gentoo  USE="libsamplerate ncurses nls -bat -doc -ieee1394 (-selinux) -verify-sig" 1629 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-laptop/pommed-1.39-r2::gentoo  USE="X -gtk" 972 KiB

Total: 9 packages (9 new), Size of downloads: 8922 KiB