I started learning rust. Worried about trusting all the various code that gets pulled in from the interwebs to compile the first example project in the book (which depends only on "rand" to get random numbers, which requires 8 different libraries), I installed "cargo vet" so that I'd at least know about it if I accidentally added things that haven't been vetted by anyone at all.

Doing this installed a further 200 crates, with no indication as to whether they have themselves been vetted by anyone or not, and tells me that half the ones I already had just from adding "rand" have not been vetted by anyone.

Anyway, I'm learning rust.

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago

One of the things I immediately liked about cargo is that (so far as I've seen thus far) the source is already there, without vendoring, in ~/.cargo/registry. In Debian, to get the source it's apt-get source $package and as an end user it's super easy to build things from those source packages if you want to.