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

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[ebuild  N     ] dev-cpp/abseil-cpp-20250127.1:0/2501.1.0::gentoo  USE="-test -test-helpers" 2216 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/protobuf-29.5-r1:0/29.5.0::gentoo  USE="libprotoc libupb protobuf protoc zlib -conformance -debug -emacs -examples -test" 9121 KiB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 11336 KiB