On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 05:27:13PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> At last I got to doing this.  I built gtk2 alone, timing a 'make'  
> just after a 'make extract', inside a virtual machine with NetBSD- 
> current and up-to-date pkgsrc.
> 
> The current gtk2 package took 32m41s (real time) to build (wow,  
> that's a lot more than it used to take not-so-long-ago!).  If I  
> disable the 'demos' and 'tests' directories, the time is cut to  
> 25m32s, so the speed savings is 7m.  This was run on a Core 2 Duo  
> 2.16 machine (host; virtual machine is a bit slower ;-), so the  
> savings will be much bigger on older machines (but I'm lazy to try  
> now because it will take a long while...).

Well, then go ahead and make it an option or a separate package...

Cheers,
 Thomas