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

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[ebuild  N     ] app-arch/cpio-2.15::gentoo  USE="nls" 1613 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-alternatives/cpio-0::gentoo  USE="gnu (split-usr) -libarchive" 0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-kernel/rt-sources-5.15.185_p86:5.15.185_p86::gentoo  USE="-build -deblob -symlink -vanilla" 125831 KiB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 127444 KiB