I fixed some opkg performance issues back then, but I could not debug the picon update, because we did not have a reproducable update producure at the time.
I suggest it is better to make a fix in opkg then inducing a work-a-round...
and as far I remember this was done once by pieterg... but it seems this issue came back somehow...
If we have now, I'd be happy to put a bit more time in.
Edited by pieterg, 31 August 2013 - 23:11.