Piece of advice: add -qv to your emerge command to let Portage show the things you need to know but stay quiet otherwise. Way less gets shown on the terminal window and on some systems it might slightly speed up the process.
Thanks for the info!
On a seprate note
gentoo package
managment is so magical!
You get to choose whats built and all the amazing features portage has like distcc and ccache. Its so much fun playing with this kinda stuff!