portage-ng / portage / dev-build / steve / 1.5.2
pmerge --pretend --verbose
[ebuild  N     ] acct-group/steve-0::gentoo
[ebuild  N     ] acct-user/steve-0::gentoo
[ebuild  N     ] dev-build/steve-1.5.2::gentoo USE="-debug -test" 22.3 KiB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 22.3 KiB


 * Running sanity checks...
>>> dev-build/steve-1.5.2: failed pkg_pretend
 /Volumes/Disk 1/gentoo-prefix/usr/lib/pkgcore/lib/pkgcore/ebd/.generated/libs/8/pkg_pretend: line 144: [[: invalid regular expression `': empty (sub)expression
  * ERROR: dev-build/steve-1.5.2:: failed (pretend phase):
  *   USE flag 'kernel_linux' not in IUSE for dev-build/steve-1.5.2
  * 
  * Call stack:
  *    isolated-functions.bash, line  333:  called pkg_pretend
  *                ebuild.bash, line 2694:  called check_extra_config
  *                ebuild.bash, line 1649:  called use 'kernel_linux'
  *                pkg_pretend, line  145:  called die
  * 
  * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage'

!!! Sanity checks failed, exiting...

Wall time
1.256 s vs. 0.013 s for portage-ng