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Re:Cargo: predictable dependency management by dikaiosune on Thursday May 05, 2016 @02:09PM (#11638434)
There's an ongoing discussion of using build caches with Cargo:

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/is-a-shared-build-cache-a-...

TLDR: There's interest, but some wrinkles need to be sorted out.

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Re:Cargo: predictable dependency management by cm3 on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:18PM (#11639731)
I like Nix-style caches myself, but a gc-cache command is needed in order to clean up only the stuff that isn't referenced anymore. I hope that's a design consideration.
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