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Re:sudo and su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Safety by steveklabnik on Saturday April 29, 2023 @07:31PM (#35758327)
> which (as binjooou stated) is currently at 1013 lines.

That doesn't mean there are a thousand dependencies. Dependencies take far more than one line in a lockfile.

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Re:sudo and su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Safety by jmillikin on Saturday April 29, 2023 @08:02PM (#35758508)
You may want to re-read their comment. They said "1000 line long dependency file", not 1000 dependencies.
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Re:sudo and su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Safety by steveklabnik on Saturday April 29, 2023 @08:18PM (#35758589)
Sure. It's worth pointing out this discrepancy even if they didn't mean to imply it, because not everybody knows that this is the case.
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Re:sudo and su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Safety by tempaccount420 on Sunday April 30, 2023 @12:05PM (#35763858)
That's not what they said.
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