It's rather annoying that you can't use ebuild unpack without filling all dependencies. Could this check be done when you do ebuild compile/install instead.
changed severity to enhancement
this *is* annoying and I think it should be fixed before Portage 1.0. A "polish" feature. Portage also has a tendency to check digests way too often if you do an "ebuild foo.ebuild clean unpack compile..."
This is now fixed on CVS. unpack should no longer trigger a dep check.