Index: bin/emerge
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--- bin/emerge	(revision 3806)
+++ bin/emerge	(working copy)
@@ -764,6 +764,12 @@
 				edepend["RDEPEND"]=string.join(mytbz2.getelements("RDEPEND")," ")
 				edepend["PDEPEND"]=string.join(mytbz2.getelements("PDEPEND")," ")
 				edepend["SLOT"]   =mytbz2.getfile("SLOT",mypkgparts[2])
+		elif mytype=="installed":
+			myfoo = self.trees[myroot]["vartree"].dbapi.aux_get(
+				mykey, ["RDEPEND","PDEPEND"])
+			edepend["DEPEND"]  = ""
+			edepend["RDEPEND"] = myfoo[0]
+			edepend["PDEPEND"] = myfoo[1]
 		elif mytype=="ebuild":
 			try:
 				mymeta = ["DEPEND","RDEPEND","PDEPEND"]
@@ -1025,6 +1031,22 @@
 			else:
 				#We are not processing a blocker but a normal dependency
 				myeb=None
+
+				vdb_match = portage.best(
+					self.trees[myroot]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x))
+
+				if vdb_match:
+					myk = ["installed", myroot,
+						self.trees[myroot]["vartree"].getebuildpath(vdb_match), "nomerge"]
+					if myparent:
+						#we are a dependency, so we want to be unconditionally added
+						if self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
+							return 1
+					elif self.create(myk, myparent,
+						"--onlydeps" not in self.myopts,
+						myuse=binpkguseflags):
+						return 1
+
 				myeb_matches = portdb.xmatch("match-visible", x)
 				if "--usepkgonly" not in self.myopts:
 					myeb=portage.best(myeb_matches)