It is not possible to prentend the emerge of the rsync package because it is an emerge keyword as well. This bug can may be reproduced with other CLI arguments as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # emerge -p rsync Actual Results: emerge: the "sync" action does not support "--pretend." Expected Results: I expected rsync to be installed ...
Try "emerge -p net-misc/rsync" (without the quotes)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2365 ***