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

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[ebuild  N     ] acct-group/bird-0-r2::gentoo  0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] acct-user/bird-0-r2::gentoo  0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] net-misc/bird-2.18.1::gentoo  USE="client filecaps -custom-cflags -debug -libssh (-selinux)" 1476 KiB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 1476 KiB