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

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[ebuild     UD ] sys-apps/gawk-5.3.2::gentoo [5.4.0-r2::gentoo] USE="mpfr nls readline -pma -verify-sig" 3662 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 3662 KiB