This parsing is for scanning annotations inside the library jars.
No, there is currently no option to disable the parsing of the library jars. If your archive needs to reference a lot of library jars and you want to avoid parsing of these library jars, you could reference these library jars through the --libraries option instead of packagin them inside the archive.
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