oh boy, here I go again: compiling kernel takes so long second time around

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

Okay, so I compiled the kernel, and then while reading stuff on the net, 
wanted to finetune it a bit more using "make menuconfig" and by changing 
a one to options. I figured the compilation shouldnt' take long the 
second time around, but it seems it is compiling as if it were compiling 
it the fist time! Am I missing something here? I am using make-kpkg to 
compile. And I did "make-kpkg clean" only once, before I compiled the 
kernel for the first time. So the second time around, shouldn't 
make-kpkg some have compile the files that were changed?
->HS

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