--- /usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge	2002-12-29 19:39:01.000000000 -0800
+++ /usr/local/portage/emerge	2003-01-09 19:43:38.000000000 -0800
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@
 		"given a dependency string, create the appropriate depgraph and return 1 on success and 0 on failure"
 		if not arg:
 			#processing dependencies
-			mycheck=portage.dep_check(depstring,self.mydbapi[myroot])
+			mycheck=portage.dep_check(depstring,self.mydbapi[myroot],parent=myparent)
 			if not mycheck[0]:
 				return 0
 			mymerge=mycheck[1]