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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by R0b0t1 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:57PM (#24345501)
If crates.io was down tomorrow there would be a major disruption to you if you were using Rust for development. That is their point, as well as potentially exploring other reasons.

As someone who uses a source-based distro I hate language package managers. They always end up inferior to a distro package manager and create extra work for everyone, including the language developers, who tolerate it because it is in their favorite language.

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by steveklabnik on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:33PM (#24346726)
It would only be an issue if I wanted to use crates that weren’t in my local cache already. And that’s gonna be true of any build system. It would also be true of any distro package manager.
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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by R0b0t1 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:59AM (#24354485)
Most other software is more dispersed and has plenty of mirrors, e.g. the Debian project. The same criticism of crates.io is typically levied against GitHub.
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