Don't forget, on gentoo you can use distcc to farm out compilation tasks, then use quickpkg to make a binary package of the result for distribution to your other machines. So you not only reduce you compilations per package to once (assuming the same use flags on all machines), but you can use the cpus from all of your machines to make it that much faster.
This is one reason I see gentoo as such a big win--it's so ridiculously easy to customize a package to exactly the features you need (leaving out entire swaths of unused code paths, dependencies, and possible security holes) and then you can distribute this to other machines all using the self-same built-in package management mechanism. I recall distinctly several times over the years seeing a security vulnerability announced in some package, checking my use flags and finding that I was not vulnerable because I had not included that feature in my build. All the binary distro users had to update whether they were using the feature or not because their binary blob always had it included... /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
