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

Calculating dependencies ... done!
Dependency resolution took 1.38 s (backtrack: 0/20).


The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
 (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by media-gfx/krita-6.0.4.1::gentoo[python_single_target_python3_14]
# required by =media-gfx/krita-6.0.4.1 (argument)
>=dev-python/pyqt6-6.11.0-r1 qml
# required by x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.2.1-r11::gentoo
# required by kde-frameworks/kf-env-6::gentoo
# required by kde-frameworks/kcolorscheme-6.31.0::gentoo
# required by kde-frameworks/kiconthemes-6.31.0::gentoo
# required by kde-frameworks/kxmlgui-6.31.0::gentoo
# required by media-gfx/krita-6.0.4.1::gentoo
# required by =media-gfx/krita-6.0.4.1 (argument)
>=app-text/xmlto-0.0.28-r11 text
# required by kde-frameworks/kcoreaddons-6.31.0::gentoo
# required by kde-frameworks/kcompletion-6.31.0::gentoo
# required by media-gfx/krita-6.0.4.1::gentoo
# required by =media-gfx/krita-6.0.4.1 (argument)
>=dev-qt/qtbase-6.11.2-r2 icu
# required by media-gfx/krita-6.0.4.1::gentoo
# required by =media-gfx/krita-6.0.4.1 (argument)
>=dev-qt/qt5compat-6.11.2 icu

 * In order to avoid wasting time, backtracking has terminated early
 * due to the above autounmask change(s). The --autounmask-backtrack=y
 * option can be used to force further backtracking, but there is no
 * guarantee that it will produce a solution.