I am writing a small personal CLI in Rust. There are two not so important issues I'd need help with:

1. Is there any built in way to analyse the how much a dependency contributes to the build time?
   For the depsize (may be a bad metric) there isn't a cargo built-in tool for it (cargo tree doesn't seem to do this).
   I've only found cargo-depsize, which does seem neat. I do think one could also use the cargo cache instead of http-querying metadata (which must be slower).
   My goal is that my little tool compiles in a short time, and uses dependencies that contain not too much extra functionality (although I know I should learn to use the features flag as well.)
2. Is there a way to colour the cargo outputs that go through less or more, or do i need another tool?
   For example, this fails:

   cargo report --color always --help | less # or more etc.
   

   I tried some less flags like -R, but no luck so far, and I want to conserve the way cargo displays it.

PS: it seems for 1. cargo +nightly build --timings may be useful.

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