Take a look at emerge -k, 'man emerge' is your friend!The distcc idea mentioned in the other answer also came to my mind. Is there btw a way, that an emerge -u that needs more than one package uses existing packages if they are in /usr/portage/packages?
We have a central host driving our distcc compile-farm doing the builds for others of the same arch and emerge -u pulls the packages fine from our NFS mounted packages/arch/cpu-type directory...
/Andreas
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