That's a lot of what buildroot also does.. basically type 'make' and it creates the cross-compiler toolchain from scratch, downloading full sources etc.., and then builds the target root filesystem from scratch, again downloading full sources etc..

But perhaps OE has stuff beyond that which could be useful. dunno, but I'll check!

For most empeg s/w, the need is for a properly setup GCC toolchain. Once a person has that (downloadable from Hijack site, btw), then regular Linux packages should be really really easy to build, simply using 'make'.

Cheers