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

Calculating dependencies ... done!
Dependency resolution took 1.71 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild  N     ] media-libs/alsa-topology-conf-1.2.5.1-r1::gentoo  USE="-verify-sig" 12 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] media-libs/alsa-ucm-conf-1.2.16.1::gentoo  USE="-verify-sig" 83 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.2.16.1::gentoo  USE="python -debug -doc -verify-sig" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_14 -python3_12 -python3_13 (-python3_15)" 1104 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] media-libs/libao-1.2.2-r3::gentoo  USE="alsa -mmap -nas -pulseaudio -sndio" 94 KiB
[ebuild     U  ] dev-python/dbus-python-1.5.0::gentoo [1.4.0::gentoo] USE="-doc -examples -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_14* -python3_12 -python3_13* (-python3_15) (-python3_11%)" 200 KiB
[ebuild     U  ] net-dns/avahi-0.9_rc5::gentoo [0.9_rc3::gentoo] USE="dbus gdbm mdnsresponder-compat* nls python -autoipd -bookmarks -doc -gtk -howl-compat -introspection -qt6 (-selinux) (-systemd) -test" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_14* -python3_12 -python3_13* (-python3_15) (-python3_11%)" 1078 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] net-libs/shairplay-0_pre20180824-r1::gentoo  USE="playfair -static-libs" 542 KiB

Total: 7 packages (2 upgrades, 5 new), Size of downloads: 3110 KiB

The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
 (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by net-libs/shairplay-0_pre20180824-r1::gentoo
# required by =net-libs/shairplay-0_pre20180824-r1 (argument)
>=net-dns/avahi-0.9_rc5 mdnsresponder-compat

!!! The following installed packages are masked:
- dev-perl/Clone-0.480.0::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
/Volumes/Disk 1/Repository/portage-git/profiles/package.mask:
# Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2026-03-22)
# Commits since the last release of Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA (0.370) are heavily
# driven by LLM automation. Avoid exposing users to this (bug #971488).
# Sadly, other dists by the same maintainers upstream are also affected,
# and so these are included here too.

For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.