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

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Dependency resolution took 1.51 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild  N     ] sys-libs/liburing-2.15:0/2::gentoo  USE="-examples -static-libs -test" 538 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-apps/plocate-1.1.23::gentoo  USE="io-uring (-selinux)" 74 KiB
[uninstall     ] sys-apps/mlocate-0.26-r3::gentoo  USE="nls (-selinux)" 
[blocks b      ] sys-apps/mlocate ("sys-apps/mlocate" is soft blocking sys-apps/plocate-1.1.23)

Total: 2 packages (2 new, 1 uninstall), Size of downloads: 611 KiB
Conflict: 1 block (all satisfied)