Just to clarify Mike Thompson and I are not "compiling some selected packages",In the same fashion as the question above, what would the benefits of compiling some selected packages (like what Mike Thompson is doing for the R-Pi)
compiling some selected packages only works when you want to increase the CPU requirements.With raspian we are building a hardfloat port for the Pi which means we have to
reduce the CPU requirements and that means we have to recompile everything.