diff --git a/desktop/numix-icon-theme/numix-icon-theme.SlackBuild b/desktop/numix-icon-theme/numix-icon-theme.SlackBuild
index 647e5caaa1..bb40155465 100644
--- a/desktop/numix-icon-theme/numix-icon-theme.SlackBuild
+++ b/desktop/numix-icon-theme/numix-icon-theme.SlackBuild
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 #  OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
+# 20200406 bkw: modified by SlackBuilds.org
+
 PRGNAM="numix-icon-theme"
 VERSION=${VERSION:-20200320}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
@@ -58,6 +60,11 @@ mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
 cat $CWD/doinst.sh > $PKG/install/doinst.sh
 
+# 20200406 bkw: create doinst.sh. Normally makepkg does this, but it's
+# *painfully* slow and we have over 17,000 symlinks to process. It takes
+# 15 minutes for makepkg to run on my test system. The find command
+# below runs in 1.5 seconds and creates an identical doinst.sh. This is
+# a 1000x speedup.
 cd $PKG
 find . -type l \
   -printf '( cd %h ; rm -rf %f )\n( cd %h ; ln -sf %l %f )\n' -delete | \