Also, try unpacking the source somewhere and doing a manual compile. Then at least you'll know if it's portage making the difference or not.alan --
Alan, thanks for the suggestion. I tried this and the compile failed with an error related to the system time. I checked the system date and it was *WAY* off...after fixing the date / time the emerge of device-mapper took about 1.5 minutes. Thanks for all the help everyone. James (off to install ntp) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
