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+Proof of concept remote builder of clean Gentoo tree to provide on demand binary packages to desktop and
+laptop comptuers. 
+
+ - This will not work with presence of any significant unstable packet.
+    * For instance, unstable firefox depends on unstable "nss-3.45". After update it is replaced in portage
+    with "nss-3.46". Either full "nss-3.*" branch should be unmasked (which may bring its own problems or the
+    manual intervention is required)
+ - Even with stable tree, there are pereodically circular dependencies (always during the bootstrap phase)
+ 
+ 
+Idea:
+ - Create 'Bootstrap' image, i.e. Gentoo image with all configuration. Solved circular dependencies ready to build
+    make bootstrap
+    make check
+    
+ - Instantiate 'Builder', i.e. synced configs and portage tree
+    make builder
+    make bash
+
+ - Update builder to integrate latest configuration/portage changes
+    make update
+    make bash
+    
+ - Start building
+    make build
+    make logs
+    
+    
+ It will build packages and put it on the attached volume. If crashed and restarted, he will first re-use already
+ built binaries and, then, will continue compilling. This requires fast storage and will not play well with overlayfs.
+ I guess lvm based stuff is necessety.
+