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

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[ebuild  N     ] sci-libs/htslib-1.23.1:0/3::gentoo  USE="bzip2 lzma -curl" 4871 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] sci-biology/STAR-2.7.10a::gentoo  11984 KiB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 16854 KiB