Problem with japanese/tex-ptex going very slowly

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Many thanks for creating the texlive port!

I am trying to install the recent japanese/tex-ptex port.  It seems to
spend several hours doing:

fmtutil: running `ptex -ini   -jobname=ptex -progname=ptex ptex.ini
#ptex' ...

Is this normal?

If it is normal, would it be OK if japanese/tex-ptex where not included
in the standard build of print/texlive-full?