diff --git a/package/gnome2/gnome-2.conf b/package/gnome2/gnome-2.conf
index bfad89ff0..729f4e638 100644
--- a/package/gnome2/gnome-2.conf
+++ b/package/gnome2/gnome-2.conf
@@ -41,19 +41,23 @@ var_append PKG_CONFIG_PATH ":" \
 	"${root:-/}$ROCKCFG_PKG_GNOME2_CORE_PREFIX/share/pkgconfig"
 
 # index.sgml is missing in almost all packages ...
-var_append confopt " " "--disable-gtk-doc"
+var_append extraconfopt " " "--disable-gtk-doc"
 
-# don't run a gtk test program which would try to acccess
+# don't run a gtk test program which would try to access
 # the X server
-var_append confopt " " "--disable-gtktest"
+var_append extraconfopt " " "--disable-gtktest"
 
 # don't run scrollkeeper updates, they will be done in a postinstall script
-var_append confopt " " "--disable-scrollkeeper"
+var_append extraconfopt " " "--disable-scrollkeeper"
+
+# speed-up one-time builds
+var_append extraconfopt " " "--disable-dependency-tracking"
 
 # include sub-package definitions
 . package/*/gtk+/gtk+-pkg.conf
 . package/*/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper-pkg.conf
 . package/*/gconf/gconf-pkg.conf
 . package/*/gstreamer/gstreamer-pkg.conf
+. package/*/hicolor-icon-theme/hicolor-icon-theme-pkg.conf
 
 splitreg 61 doc '/share/gtk-doc/'