Conda's docs include explicit advice to install "programs" into an environment separate from base, where conda itself resides. Does conda-build count as a "program" in that sense, not to be installed in base?

In my own work I always install conda-build into base, reasoning that is a part of conda in some ways, plus I've been working with people who had problems (possibly now addressed by https://github.com/conda/conda/releases/tag/23.7.3) when they installed conda-build in their non-base environment. Yet I can't find any explicit statement about where to install conda-build. The conda-build docs simply say to conda install conda-build, which for most users will end up in their non-base environment if they follow the blanket conda recommendation not to install into base.

If conda-build should be installed into base, I think the docs should be updated to state that explicitly. If it can be installed either in base or another environment, it would be great to list any limitations there are on that -- what happens when conda in base and conda-build are very different versions? Must a compatible conda always be installed alongside conda-build in the non-base environment? Etc.