diff --git a/bin/build.sh b/bin/build.sh
index 4260199..099f621 100755
--- a/bin/build.sh
+++ b/bin/build.sh
@@ -120,9 +120,7 @@ source ${BASEDIR}/lib/03-release_me.func.sh
 source ${BASEDIR}/lib/04-facehugger.func.sh
 source ${BASEDIR}/lib/05-chroot_wrapper.func.sh
 source ${BASEDIR}/lib/06-jenny_craig.func.sh
-if [[ "${HOST_DIST}" == "CentOS" || "${HOST_DIST}" == "RHEL" || "${HOST_DIST}" == "SUSE" ]];
-  source ${BASEDIR}/lib/07-centos_is_stupid.func.sh
-fi
+source ${BASEDIR}/lib/07-centos_is_stupid.func.sh
 source ${BASEDIR}/lib/08-will_it_blend.func.sh
 source ${BASEDIR}/lib/09-stuffy.func.sh
 source ${BASEDIR}/lib/10-yo_dj.func.sh
@@ -154,9 +152,7 @@ fi
 if [[ ${1} == "update" ]];
 then
   mentos
-  if [[ -f "${CHROOTDIR}root.x86_64/root/chroot" || -f "${CHROOTDIR}root.i686/root/chroot" ]];
-    centos_is_stupid
-  fi
+  centos_is_stupid
   will_it_blend 32
   will_it_blend 64
   yo_dj
@@ -176,21 +172,15 @@ if [[ ${1} == "build" || -z ${1} || ${1} == "all" ]];
 then
   if [[ "${MULTIARCH}" == "y" ]];
   then
-    if [[ -f "${CHROOTDIR}root.x86_64/root/chroot" || -f "${CHROOTDIR}root.i686/root/chroot" ]];
-      centos_is_stupid
-    fi
+    centos_is_stupid
     will_it_blend 64
     will_it_blend 32
     yo_dj any
   else
-    if [[ -f "${CHROOTDIR}root.x86_64/root/chroot" || -f "${CHROOTDIR}root.i686/root/chroot" ]];
-      centos_is_stupid
-    fi
+    centos_is_stupid
     will_it_blend 64
     yo_dj 64
-    if [[ -f "${CHROOTDIR}root.x86_64/root/chroot" || -f "${CHROOTDIR}root.i686/root/chroot" ]];
-      centos_is_stupid
-    fi
+    centos_is_stupid
     will_it_blend 32
     yo_dj 32
   fi
diff --git a/lib/00-depcheck.func.sh b/lib/00-depcheck.func.sh
index ca57d95..8f356f8 100755
--- a/lib/00-depcheck.func.sh
+++ b/lib/00-depcheck.func.sh
@@ -41,33 +41,6 @@ function so_check_me_out {
    exit 1
  fi
 
- ## TWEAKS GO HERE. ##
- #  stupid gentoo. good riddance.
- set +e
- if [[ "${HOST_DIST}" == "Gentoo" ]];
- then
-   grep -q 'app-arch/lzma' /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
-   if [[ "${?}" != "0" ]];
-   then
-     echo 'app-arch/lzma' >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
-   fi
- fi
- set -e
-
- # For some reason, I can't get "yes y | " to parse correctly with eval. And Arch isn't smart enough
- # to figuure out that if I enable the multilib repos, *I wat multilib gcc*. Fuck it. We'll just remove it first.
- if [[ "${HOST_DIST}" == "Arch" || "${HOST_DIST}" == "Antergos" || "${HOST_DIST}" == "Manjaro" ]];
- then
-   for pkg_override in gcc gcc-libs;
-   do
-     pacman -Q ${pkg_override} >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
-     if [[ "${?}" == "0" ]];
-     then
-       pacman -R --noconfirm ${pkg_override} >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
-     fi
-   done
- fi
-
  # So we've validated the distro. Here, check for packages and install if necessary. maybe use an array, but it'd be better to soft-fail if one of the packages is missing.
 
  DISTRO_DIR="${BASEDIR}/lib/prereqs/${HOST_DIST}"
@@ -77,6 +50,9 @@ function so_check_me_out {
  # And once more, just to be safe.
  source ${META}
 
+ ## TWEAKS GET RUN HERE.
+ distro_specific_tweaks
+
  if [[ "${PRE_RUN}" != 'none' ]];
  then
    echo "Now updating your local package cache..."
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/Antergos/meta b/lib/prereqs/Antergos/meta
index d6e27a0..8199262 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/Antergos/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/Antergos/meta
@@ -5,3 +5,20 @@ PKG_MGR='pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='pacman -Syyy'
 PKG_CHK='pacman -Q ${pkgname}'
 URL='http://antergos.com/'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+ # For some reason, I can't get "yes y | " to parse correctly with eval. And Arch isn't smart enough
+ # to figure out that if I enable the multilib repos, *I want multilib gcc*. Fuck it. We'll just remove it first.
+
+ set +e
+ for pkg_override in gcc gcc-libs;
+ do
+   pacman -Q ${pkg_override} >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+   if [[ "${?}" == "0" ]];
+   then
+     pacman -Rdd --noconfirm ${pkg_override} >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+   fi
+ done
+set -e
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/Arch/meta b/lib/prereqs/Arch/meta
index 7c0295c..88230d1 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/Arch/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/Arch/meta
@@ -5,3 +5,20 @@ PKG_MGR='pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='pacman -Syyy'
 PKG_CHK='pacman -Q ${pkgname}'
 URL='https://www.archlinux.org/'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+ # For some reason, I can't get "yes y | " to parse correctly with eval. And Arch isn't smart enough
+ # to figure out that if I enable the multilib repos, *I want multilib gcc*. Fuck it. We'll just remove it first.
+
+ set +e
+ for pkg_override in gcc gcc-libs;
+ do
+   pacman -Q ${pkg_override} >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+   if [[ "${?}" == "0" ]];
+   then
+     pacman -Rdd --noconfirm ${pkg_override} >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+   fi
+ done
+set -e
+
+} 
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/CentOS/meta b/lib/prereqs/CentOS/meta
index 03fb02a..f552883 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/CentOS/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/CentOS/meta
@@ -5,5 +5,11 @@ PKG_MGR='yum -y install ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='none'
 PKG_CHK='rpm -q ${pkgname} | egrep "^${pkgname}-[0-9]"'
 URL='http://centos.org/'
-# NOTE: we handle installing of squashfs-tools (maybe) and xorriso in centos_is_stupid function.
-# because they *suck*. Seriously. I need to install tk just to install xorriso. I mean, what?
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+ # NOTE: we handle installing of squashfs-tools (maybe) and xorriso in centos_is_stupid function.
+ # because they *suck*. Seriously. I need to install tk just to install xorriso. I mean, what?
+
+ echo "No tweaks found."
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/Debian/meta b/lib/prereqs/Debian/meta
index 71fc285..1c9eab3 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/Debian/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/Debian/meta
@@ -5,3 +5,9 @@ PKG_MGR='apt-get -y install ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='apt-get update'
 PKG_CHK='dpkg-query -l ${pkgname} | egrep "^ii[[:space:]]*${pkgname}"'
 URL='http://www.debian.org/'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+
+ echo "No tweaks found."
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/Devuan/meta b/lib/prereqs/Devuan/meta
index cd36c19..d508914 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/Devuan/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/Devuan/meta
@@ -5,3 +5,10 @@ PKG_MGR='apt-get -y install ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='apt-get update'
 PKG_CHK='dpkg-query -l ${pkgname} | egrep "^ii[[:space:]]*${pkgname}"'
 URL='http://www.debian.org/'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+
+ echo "No tweaks found."
+
+}
+
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/Fedora/meta b/lib/prereqs/Fedora/meta
index e92bea7..3ab01f1 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/Fedora/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/Fedora/meta
@@ -5,3 +5,10 @@ PKG_MGR='dnf -y install ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='none'
 PKG_CHK='rpm -q ${pkgname} | egrep "^${pkgname}-[0-9]"'
 URL='https://getfedora.org/'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+
+ echo "No tweaks found."
+
+}
+
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/Gentoo/meta b/lib/prereqs/Gentoo/meta
index 16453c9..5c1b9dc 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/Gentoo/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/Gentoo/meta
@@ -5,3 +5,16 @@ PKG_MGR='emerge -q1Dn ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='emerge -q --sync'
 PKG_CHK='emerge -qp @installed 2>/dev/null | egrep -E "/${pkgname}-[0-9.]+"'
 URL='https://www.gentoo.org/'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+ # WHY IS THIS EVEN MASKED?!
+
+ set +e
+ grep -q 'app-arch/lzma' /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
+ if [[ "${?}" != "0" ]];
+ then
+   echo 'app-arch/lzma' >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
+ fi
+ set -e
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/Mageia/meta b/lib/prereqs/Mageia/meta
index 4f235da..56dd871 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/Mageia/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/Mageia/meta
@@ -5,3 +5,10 @@ PKG_MGR='urpmi --force ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='urpmi.update -a'
 PKG_CHK='rpm -q ${pkgname} | egrep "^${pkgname}-[0-9]"'
 URL='https://www.mageia.org/'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+
+ echo "No tweaks found."
+
+}
+
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/Manjaro/meta b/lib/prereqs/Manjaro/meta
index 3bd7fde..57df8b6 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/Manjaro/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/Manjaro/meta
@@ -5,3 +5,20 @@ PKG_MGR='pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='pacman -Syyyu'
 PKG_CHK='pacman -Q ${pkgname}'
 URL='https://manjaro.org/'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+ # For some reason, I can't get "yes y | " to parse correctly with eval. And Arch isn't smart enough
+ # to figure out that if I enable the multilib repos, *I want multilib gcc*. Fuck it. We'll just remove it first.
+
+ set +e
+ for pkg_override in gcc gcc-libs;
+ do
+   pacman -Q ${pkg_override} >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+   if [[ "${?}" == "0" ]];
+   then
+     pacman -Rdd --noconfirm ${pkg_override} >> "${LOGFILE}.${FUNCNAME}" 2>&1
+   fi
+ done
+set -e
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/Mint/meta b/lib/prereqs/Mint/meta
index 27c545e..ad5d74b 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/Mint/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/Mint/meta
@@ -5,3 +5,9 @@ PKG_MGR='apt-get -y install ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='apt-get -y update'
 PKG_CHK='dpkg-query -l ${pkgname}'
 URL='http://www.linuxmint.com/'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+
+ echo "No tweaks found."
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/RHEL/meta b/lib/prereqs/RHEL/meta
index 1fb5bfe..d5319ab 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/RHEL/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/RHEL/meta
@@ -6,3 +6,10 @@ PKG_MGR='yum -y install'
 PRE_RUN='none'
 PKG_CHK='rpm -q ${pkgname} | egrep "^${pkgname}-[0-9]"'
 URL='http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+
+ echo "No tweaks found."
+
+}
+
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/SUSE/meta b/lib/prereqs/SUSE/meta
index 56a6331..cbdb475 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/SUSE/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/SUSE/meta
@@ -6,4 +6,11 @@ PKG_MGR='zypper install --no-confirm -l ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='zypper refresh'
 PKG_CHK='rpm -q ${pkgname} | egrep "^${pkgname}-[0-9]"'
 URL='https://www.suse.com/'
-# See the centos_is_stupid function. we do some tweaks there since -devel pkgs require the SDK on SLES/SLED.
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+ # See the centos_is_stupid function. we do some tweaks there since -devel pkgs require the SDK on SLES/SLED.
+
+ echo "No tweaks found."
+
+}
+
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/Ubuntu/meta b/lib/prereqs/Ubuntu/meta
index d9e71b5..aaa98f2 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/Ubuntu/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/Ubuntu/meta
@@ -5,3 +5,10 @@ PKG_MGR='apt-get -y install ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='apt-get -y update'
 PKG_CHK='dpkg-query -l ${pkgname} | egrep "^ii[[:space:]]*${pkgname}"'
 URL='http://www.ubuntu.com/'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+
+ echo "No tweaks found."
+
+}
+
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/elementaryOS/meta b/lib/prereqs/elementaryOS/meta
index 63003d0..34f10ae 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/elementaryOS/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/elementaryOS/meta
@@ -5,3 +5,10 @@ PKG_MGR='apt-get -y install ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='apt-get -y update'
 PKG_CHK='dpkg-query -l ${pkgname} | egrep "^ii[[:space:]]*${pkgname}"'
 URL='https://elementary.io/'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+
+ echo "No tweaks found."
+
+}
+
diff --git a/lib/prereqs/openSUSE/meta b/lib/prereqs/openSUSE/meta
index 0966de3..d33230d 100644
--- a/lib/prereqs/openSUSE/meta
+++ b/lib/prereqs/openSUSE/meta
@@ -6,3 +6,10 @@ PKG_MGR='zypper install --no-confirm -l ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='zypper refresh'
 PKG_CHK='rpm -q ${pkgname} | egrep "^${pkgname}-[0-9]"'
 URL='https://www.opensuse.org/'
+
+function distro_specific_tweaks {
+
+ echo "No tweaks found."
+
+}
+