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

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[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/kpathsea-6.4.0_p20240311-r1:0/6.4.0::gentoo  USE="-doc -source -static-libs" 68532 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/ptexenc-1.4.6_p20240311::gentoo  USE="iconv" 0 KiB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 68532 KiB