I actually had kind of a cool idea while walking to the bus stop this morning; a JIT Portage server that builds packages on demand. This would require:
* Writing a portage server * Patching portage to connect to said server Basically, `emerge <pkgname>` would send a message to the server "I need www-client/firefox-35.0[pulseaudio]". The server would return the tarball if already built, otherwise build it and then return it. This would be reasonably complex to implement in practice, but it would let everybody using the same binhost to run their own custom USE flags. Re more accurate numbers: dev-java/icedtea. Let's pretend building this takes ~5 minutes (this is faster than my desktop can do it in RAM with 6 hyper-threaded cores). There are 13 USE flags that are configurable if you're using HotSpot; we'll ignore JamVM and CACAO. On a single server, this would take nearly a month (28.44 days, exactly). Alec
