@navi @ari @privateger precompiling rlibs doesn't sound like a good idea regardless, only the source code should be packaged and that's not difficult to automate at a basic level at least
for library packages, removing the lockfile is unnecessary because only the top-level lockfile is ever considered, and there's a --lockfile-path argument which could be pointed to /dev/null

I don't doubt you ran into issues but the problems are solvable, it's just a lot of work for a single person