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

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Dependency resolution took 1.56 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild  N     ] sys-process/anacron-2.3-r6::gentoo  24 KiB
[uninstall     ] sys-process/cronie-1.7.2::gentoo  USE="anacron inotify pam (-selinux)" 
[blocks b      ] sys-process/anacron ("sys-process/anacron" is soft blocking sys-process/cronie-1.7.2)

Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 uninstall), Size of downloads: 24 KiB
Conflict: 1 block (all satisfied)