Hi everyone. I was about to make a ticket, but then thought this might be 
something better discussed for feasibility and maybe ways of going about it if 
I'm not insane for suggesting it.

Would it be possible to add some manner of configuration option (or possibly 
extra command-line switches) so that the -s and -b command-line switches aren't 
taken into account for packages (and their dependencies) that only got 
pulled-in as the result of a `depends_build`?

My use case is the following: I'm building a large program that depends on 
things like ffmpeg, librsvg (and thus rust), among others, and I want it to be 
truly redistributable, so I want to build at least all direct dependencies 
myself. Howevere, I don't want to be building stuff like gcc, rustc, clang and 
llvm on the regular on my CI runs. This has led me to make a very complex 
workflow trying to optimize what is built and what is installed from binary 
packages and it mostly works, but is very 
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