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

Calculating dependencies ... done!
Dependency resolution took 1.15 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/oniguruma-6.9.10:0/5::gentoo  USE="-crnl-as-line-terminator -static-libs" 957 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-eselect/eselect-php-0.9.9::gentoo  USE="-apache2 -fpm" 54 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/uriparser-1.0.2::gentoo  USE="unicode -doc -qt6 -test" 218 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-lang/php-8.5.11:8.5::gentoo  USE="acl bzip2 cli ctype fileinfo filter flatfile gdbm gmp iconv ipv6 jit jpeg nls opcache-jit pdo phar png posix readline session simplexml sqlite ssl threads tokenizer truetype unicode xml zlib -apache2 -apparmor -argon2 -avif -bcmath -berkdb -calendar -capstone -cdb -cgi -curl -debug -embed -enchant -exif -ffi -fpm -ftp -gd -inifile -intl -iodbc -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit -lmdb -mhash -mssql -mysql -mysqli -odbc -pcntl -phpdbg -postgres -qdbm (-selinux) -session-mm -sharedmem -snmp -soap -sockets -sodium -spell (-systemd) -sysvipc -test -test-full -tidy -tokyocabinet -valgrind -webp -xmlreader -xmlwriter -xpm -xslt -zip" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres17 -postgres15 -postgres16 -postgres18" 14131 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-php/awl-0.64::gentoo  125 KiB

Total: 5 packages (5 new), Size of downloads: 15482 KiB

The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
 (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by dev-php/awl-0.64::gentoo
# required by =dev-php/awl-0.64 (argument)
>=dev-lang/php-8.5.11 pdo