Its by far the most common hostmakedepends and would avoid having to install/uinstall it every build, has 0 extra dependencies and would avoid having to add it to hostmakedepends manually.
$ find srcpkgs -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '%f\n' | xe -s './xbps-src show-hostmakedepends $1 > hostmakedepends/$1'
$ sort hostmakedepends/* | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n10
3538 pkg-config
1471 ninja
1465 python3-packaging-bootstrap
1465 cmake-bootstrap
1095 python3-setuptools
1095 gettext
972 perl
796 meson
745 automake
636 python3-build
Its by far the most common
hostmakedependsand would avoid having to install/uinstall it every build, has 0 extra dependencies and would avoid having to add it to hostmakedepends manually.