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Re:GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell by indemnity on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @06:48AM (#27526992)
Do you have some specific examples?

E.g. ripgrep is packaged on most operating systems I have used, along with exa, and a few other Rust utils I use.

I certainly do not use Cargo to install them.

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Re:GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell by vkoskiv on Thursday June 17, 2021 @06:54AM (#27538231)
Perhaps the packagers on your platform went that extra mile to build binary packages. Taking a quick look, the Homebrew formula[0] for ripgrep on macOS just lists a dependency on Cargo (rust) and then seems to invoke the cargo command for installation. I'm not well versed in Ruby though, so my interpretation could be wrong.

I don't want to come off as entitled, either. I know the Homebrew folks are doing a ton of brilliant, ongoing work to make it work as well as it does, so I can't really blame them for potentially taking a shortcut here.

[0] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/...

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Re:GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell by burntsushi on Thursday June 17, 2021 @11:43AM (#27540859)
If it installs a bottle, then does it still require installing Rust? If so, then maybe that's a shortcoming of Homebrew.

Either way, it kinda seems like you're complaining about Homebrew here. Not Rust.

If having Cargo/Rust on your system is really a Hard No (...why?), then I guess find a package manager that only delivers whatever is necessary, or, if available, use the project's binary releases: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/13.0.0

And actually, in the case of ripgrep, it provides a Homebrew tap that specifically uses the GitHub release binary: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/pkg/brew/r...

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