--- emerge.orig	2003-08-03 02:03:46.451820610 -0400
+++ emerge	2003-08-03 02:05:26.015833830 -0400
@@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@
 						emergelog(" === ("+str(mergecount)+" of "+str(len(mymergelist))+") Updating world file ("+y+")")
 						portage.writedict(myfavdict,myroot+"var/cache/edb/world",writekey=0)
 
-				if ("noclean" not in portage.features) and (x[0] != "binary"):
+				if ("noclean" not in portage.features) and (x[0] != "binary") and ("--fetchonly" not in myopts):
 					emergelog(" === ("+str(mergecount)+" of "+str(len(mymergelist))+") Post-Build Cleaning ("+y+")")
 					retval=portage.doebuild(y,"clean",myroot,edebug)
 					if retval: