On Saturday 29 May 2010 16:06:19 Richard Freeman wrote:
> going to want to strip out the toolchain, portage, etc.  You would use
> gentoo to maintain a development image, and then any time you want to
> you could copy that and then trim it way down (you could probably script
> this).

there is plenty of information that talks about cross-compiling, development 
sysroots, and creating stripped runtime roots.  this really isnt a big deal 
once you have the system going.
-mike