Index: bin/emerge
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--- bin/emerge	(revision 2256)
+++ bin/emerge	(working copy)
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@
 "--getbinpkg",    "--getbinpkgonly",
 "--help",         "--noconfmem",
 "--newuse",       "--nocolor",
+"--nodepend",
 "--nodeps",       "--noreplace",
 "--nospinner",    "--oneshot",
 "--onlydeps",     "--pretend",
@@ -1021,6 +1022,9 @@
 			except (KeyError,IOError):
 				print "emerge: create(): aux_get() error on",mykey+"; aborting..."
 				sys.exit(1)
+		if "--nodepend" in myopts and "--pretend" in myopts:
+			# Drop DEPEND for any package type (emulate "binary" package behavior as per bug 111656)
+			edepend["DEPEND"] =""
 		mydep={}
 		mp=string.join(mybigkey)