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

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Dependency resolution took 1.54 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild  N     ] acct-group/ssmtp-0-r2::gentoo  0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64_p11-r1::gentoo  USE="mta ssl -gnutls" 94 KiB
[uninstall     ] mail-mta/nullmailer-2.2-r2::gentoo  USE="ssl -test" 
[blocks b      ] mail-mta/nullmailer ("mail-mta/nullmailer" is soft blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64_p11-r1)
[blocks b      ] mail-mta/ssmtp[mta(+)] ("mail-mta/ssmtp[mta(+)]" is soft blocking mail-mta/nullmailer-2.2-r2)

Total: 2 packages (2 new, 1 uninstall), Size of downloads: 94 KiB
Conflict: 2 blocks (all satisfied)