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

Calculating dependencies ... done!
Dependency resolution took 1.57 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild   R    ] sys-fs/dosfstools-4.2::gentoo  USE="compat* iconv -test" 314 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-util/patchutils-0.4.5-r1::gentoo  USE="pcre" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_14 -python3_12 -python3_13" 418 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-boot/gnu-efi-4.0.4::gentoo  USE="(-custom-cflags)" 240 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-boot/elilo-3.16-r6::gentoo  USE="-secureboot" 506 KiB

Total: 4 packages (3 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 1477 KiB

The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
 (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by sys-boot/elilo-3.16-r6::gentoo
# required by =sys-boot/elilo-3.16-r6 (argument)
>=sys-fs/dosfstools-4.2 compat