Not sure how your flavor of distribution points would have any affect on compiling. I have a dedicated desktop for image creation, pkg creation and compiling. It's just a standard desktop.
After some odd trial and error, my favorite style is to compile while logged in as root and never re-compile an image. If it changes make a new one with a new name.
The key for me has been to log gin as root. That way I can start it and forget it.
Nick Caro Senior Desktop Support Administrator
