Yeah, IME it's always a tiny number of packages; IIRC my system only took a day to build because webkit took most of that time, and I didn't even try to compile

Yeah, IME it's always a tiny number of packages; IIRC my system only took a day to build because webkit took most of that time, and I didn't even try to compile firefox. (In fact, some of my setup retains the expectation of running firefox from a tarball from Mozilla specifically because I used to run gentoo)