Subject: bug#26321: 25.1; (require 'package) takes minutes on Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:52:17 +0300

> From: "Geoffrey S. Knauth" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:00:28 -0400
> 
> emacs -Q
> M-: (require 'package) RET
> 
> ;;; wait a couple of minutes, then finally the evaluation finishes:
> package
> 
> This only happens on Windows, and it only started happening a few weeks
> ago.  Before that, my Emacs experience on Windows was fine.

Not reproducible here, on MS-Windows.

Could it be that something has changed on your system since then?