pmerge --pretend --verbose
[ebuild N ] sci-electronics/ngspice-46::gentoo USE="X klu openmp readline shared -debug -deprecated -doc -examples -fftw -tcl -test" 10.0 MiB
[ebuild N ] sci-electronics/xcircuit-3.10.30-r2::gentoo USE="-tcl" 1.5 MiB
Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 11.6 MiB
* Running sanity checks...
>>> sci-electronics/ngspice-46: 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: sci-electronics/ngspice-46:: failed (pretend phase):
* USE flag 'openmp' not in IUSE for sci-electronics/ngspice-46
*
* Call stack:
* isolated-functions.bash, line 333: called pkg_pretend
* ebuild.bash, line 1672: called use 'openmp'
* pkg_pretend, line 145: called die
*
* Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage'
!!! Sanity checks failed, exiting...
- Wall time
- 0.727 s vs. 0.027 s for portage-ng