Greetings, since quite some time I'm speeding up "emerge" by installing plenty of packages I do not set personal USE flags for from the binhost. This worked well until June where package "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.12.31" was also provided by the binhost. While building the kernel packages from source took 2 or 3 minutes on my rig, installing package "sys-ker- nel/gentoo-sources-6.12.31" from the binhost took 12 minutes! In Sep- tember I built package "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.12.41" from source (the binhost was still offering "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.12.31") which again took only 2 minutes.
Currently the binhost is offering "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.12.58" and installing it from there again took 14 minutes while building it from source took 2 minutes as usual. Can anybody shed some light on this (at least for me) unexpected behavi- our? Sincerely, Rainer
