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Re:Rewriting Sysctl(8) in Rust: Systeroid by zaarn on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:55AM (#31083133)
>Such people need to know which dependencies they need to provide.

Cargo.lock specifies exactly which dependencies are required and in which version (down to git commit hashes and checksums). You can parse that file, way less error prone that doing it by hand (you can probably even fully automate the process of checking out the dependency repos).

Re:Rewriting Sysctl(8) in Rust: Systeroid by orlp on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:19AM (#31083496)
Re:Rewriting Sysctl(8) in Rust: Systeroid by zaarn on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:23AM (#31083547)
That's basically what is suggested above, except more integrated, and basically what GP wanted.