Oh yeah and I forgot to mention that of course all these tests were done ~empirically (cold boot, one thing changed at a time). The second "34 seconds!" time is, of course, not significative compared to "no network interace configured".
Furthermore, removing compiz + awn reduces the login time by 5 additional seconds (much less than I thought; I thought it would chop off 15 seconds).
Oh yeah and I forgot to mention that of course all these tests were done ~empirically (cold boot, one thing changed at a time). The second "34 seconds!" time is, of course, not significative compared to "no network interace configured".
Furthermore, removing compiz + awn reduces the login time by 5 additional seconds (much less than I thought; I thought it would chop off 15 seconds).