https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044
--- Comment #14 from Ralf Jung post+wine@ralfj.de --- No, there are no printers in that network. However, I do have some printers set up in my local cups that were not reachable at the time of yesterday's test.
For some strange reason though, I am now unable to reproduce the issue.
$ rm .wine/ -rf && time wine echo[...] Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled. Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled. wine: configuration in '/home/r/.wine' has been updated. wine: cannot find L"C:\windows\system32\echo.exe"
real 0m2.256s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.000s
This is in a different network; in particular, the aforementioned network printers *are* reachable. I will try again in my home network later today. This may also explain why the time went down from 2min to 1min... I have since set up my machine again. While I used to have 4 network printers configured in cups, now there are only 2. Sounds like it takes 30sec per printer.