Index: pym/portage/__init__.py
===================================================================
--- pym/portage/__init__.py	(revision 12796)
+++ pym/portage/__init__.py	(revision 12799)
@@ -5952,6 +5952,7 @@
 		mycpv = "/".join((mysettings["CATEGORY"], mysettings["PF"]))
 
 		emerge_skip_distfiles = returnpid
+		emerge_skip_digest = returnpid
 		# Only try and fetch the files if we are going to need them ...
 		# otherwise, if user has FEATURES=noauto and they run `ebuild clean
 		# unpack compile install`, we will try and fetch 4 times :/
@@ -6008,7 +6009,8 @@
 			elif mydo == "digest":
 				return not digestgen(aalist, mysettings, overwrite=1,
 					myportdb=mydbapi)
-			elif "digest" in mysettings.features:
+			elif not emerge_skip_digest and not parallel_fetchonly and \
+				"digest" in mysettings.features:
 				digestgen(aalist, mysettings, overwrite=0, myportdb=mydbapi)
 		except portage.exception.PermissionDenied, e:
 			writemsg("!!! Permission Denied: %s\n" % (e,), noiselevel=-1)
Index: pym/_emerge/__init__.py
===================================================================
--- pym/_emerge/__init__.py	(revision 12796)
+++ pym/_emerge/__init__.py	(revision 12799)
@@ -14572,7 +14572,14 @@
 			# Convert Atom instances to plain str.
 			mtimedb["resume"]["favorites"] = [str(x) for x in favorites]
 
-			if ("--digest" in myopts) and not ("--fetchonly" in myopts or "--fetch-all-uri" in myopts):
+			digest = '--digest' in myopts
+			if not digest:
+				for pkgsettings in mydepgraph.pkgsettings.itervalues():
+					if 'digest' in pkgsettings.features:
+						digest = True
+						break
+
+			if digest and '--fetchonly' not in myopts:
 				for pkgline in mydepgraph.altlist():
 					if pkgline[0]=="ebuild" and pkgline[3]=="merge":
 						y = trees[pkgline[1]]["porttree"].dbapi.findname(pkgline[2])