Fedora distribution build times

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:14:42 -0500,
  Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
> On 01/15/2011 10:38 AM, John Reiser wrote:
> 
> 
>    Is it possible to break down how much time is in compiling versus
> packaging versus whatever else is involved ?

The time to run mock is significant (even without the setuid issue) and
if you don't need to check that packages have the correct build requires
declarations you could save significant time by cutting that step out.