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

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[ebuild  N     ] net-dialup/ppp-scripts-0::gentoo  2 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4:3::gentoo  USE="bzip2 cxx jit pcre16 readline (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre32 -static-libs -valgrind" 1542 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] net-dialup/accel-ppp-1.12.0_p20230609::gentoo  USE="strip -debug -dist-kernel -doc -ipoe -libtomcrypt -lua -modules-compress -modules-sign -postgres -radius -shaper -snmp -valgrind" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" 1641 KiB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 3184 KiB