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

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[ebuild  N     ] net-dialup/mingetty-1.08-r3::gentoo  USE="unicode" 14 KiB
[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/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-misc/livecd-tools-2.12::gentoo  21 KiB

Total: 7 packages (7 new), Size of downloads: 6102 KiB