Yay: Do not remove explicitly installed make dependencies when removing other make dependencies

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Affected Version

yay v9.4.6.r0.g352667f - libalpm v12.0.1

Issue

yay(8) will remove explicitly installed packages when removing make dependencies.

If you install two packages and one is a make dependency of the other, --removemake will delete an explicitly installed package.

Can we not remove the explicitly installed make dependency either by an option or by default?

Steps to reproduce

1. yay -Syu --removemake --noprovides pulseaudio-modules-bt-git libldac
2. yay -Qi libldac

In this case both of these are AUR packages and libldac is a make dependency of pulseaudio-modules-bt-git and --removemake removes the explicitly installed libldac.

If --noremovemake is used to build/install and afterwards yay -Y --clean is performed, libldac is successfully _not_ removed. It seems pacman(8) is marking them as explicit, but yay(8) is removing anything in the makedepends list without any regard for explicit flag on package.

Can yay(8) support --asexplicit option with --removemake option? Something that can be used with --save and used by default?

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