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

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[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r4:3::gentoo  USE="bzip2 cxx jit pcre16 readline (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre32 -static-libs -valgrind" 1542 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-apps/the_silver_searcher-2.2.0_p20201217-r4::gentoo  USE="zlib -lzma -test" 162 KiB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1704 KiB