Prune impossible packages as a solver pre-pass
There are many packages that can never be successfully configured and by pruning them early we reduce the number of choices for the solver later (which is good since the solver does no backtracking when it makes bad choices). This relies on two recent features: 1. we can now express constraints that exclude a particular source package and 2. that we can exclude packages without needing to know whether or not they will ever be needed.
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