On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:23 PM Mike Pagano <mpag...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Adding linux-info calls to pkg_pretend or pkg_setup causes slowdowns > > when running emerge, so we should do so only when there is a > > compensating benefit. > > Is this a significant slowdown? Do you have any numbers?
Adding a check for CONFIG_PACKET to the dhcpcd ebuild adds around 7 seconds of delay time to the pkg_setup and/or pkg_pretend phase on my system. That's ok if a small number of packages are doing it, but it would become quite annoying if a significant number of them get queued up.
