I have finished my first LFS and it is OK. Now I am diving a bit deeper and trying to build more customized LFS. I have an idea to build some lightweight LFS based distro which do not have any development tools but still is reday for BLFS with GUI, networking and so on. Also I am planning to use paco as package manager: I will monitor "make install"s on my full LFS and then create binary packages for "no development" LFS.
The problem is - I am still a bit new to GNU/Linux and do not fully understand what dependencies are required to build fully functional LFS but without development tools. I guess I may skip GCC, DejaGnu, Expect? What else may be skipped?
Thanks

Doing smaller than LFS is difficult and doesnt bring much.
You can never never skip gcc, glibc or binutils etc.
I am not sure : you may skip man-page, vim, groff, flex and other tools, it depends if you need them.