Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidance on adding kernel config checks to ebuilds

[Mike Gilbert]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:23 PM Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o> 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.