1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Bit Shift (bitshift) http://rainbowdash.net/bitshift http://rainbowdash.net/notice/2779573 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/796" class="url" title="Cloud Kicker"><span class="fn nickname">critialcloudkicker</span></a></span> The trade-off is that with dpkg et al, everything's already compiled on a packager's system, whereas portage compiles then on your machine - it has to do so to be able to change so much - and that's undeniably slower. Probably unbearably slow on the machine you're using.