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

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[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/Module-Runtime-0.18.0::gentoo  USE="-test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 27 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/Clone-Choose-0.10.0::gentoo  USE="-test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 11 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/Hash-Merge-0.302.0-r1::gentoo  USE="-test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 14 KiB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 52 KiB