--- a/lib/_emerge/depgraph.py	
+++ a/lib/_emerge/depgraph.py	
@@ -3874,6 +3874,8 @@ class depgraph(object):
 				# or whatever other metadata gets implemented for this
 				# purpose.
 				if x.cp.startswith('virtual/'):
+					if disjunctions:
+						disjunctions = []
 					disjunctions.append(x)
 				else:
 					yield x