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

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[ebuild  N     ] sys-apps/ed-1.22.5::gentoo  USE="-verify-sig" 70 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-vcs/rcs-5.10.1-r1::gentoo  USE="-doc" 896 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-perl/Rcs-1.50.0-r3::gentoo  USE="-examples -test" PERL_FEATURES="ithreads (-debug) -quadmath" 37 KiB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 1002 KiB