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

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[ebuild  N     ] dev-cpp/nlohmann_json-3.12.0-r1::gentoo  USE="-test" 9452 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] net-libs/libtorrent-0.16.24::gentoo  USE="-debug -test" 922 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] net-p2p/rtorrent-0.16.24::gentoo  USE="ncurses -debug -lua (-selinux) (-systemd) -test -tinyxml2 -xmlrpc" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="-lua5-3 -lua5-4" 866 KiB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 11239 KiB