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

Calculating dependencies ... done!
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[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/Hash-Merge-Simple-0.52.0::gentoo  USE="-test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 18 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 18 KiB

!!! The following installed packages are masked:
- dev-perl/Clone-0.480.0::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
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# Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2026-03-22)
# Commits since the last release of Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA (0.370) are heavily
# driven by LLM automation. Avoid exposing users to this (bug #971488).
# Sadly, other dists by the same maintainers upstream are also affected,
# and so these are included here too.

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