Those dependencies still get downloaded and shipped by tools like cargo vendor, because cargo vendor has no target specific vendoring support [1]. The dependenc

Those dependencies still get downloaded and shipped by tools like cargo vendor, because cargo vendor has no target specific vendoring support [1]. The dependencies still bloat up the Cargo.lock files and thus probably have a negative impact on Cargo resolution graph creation (which is an NP complete problem). And to top this, the code isn't even used on Redox [2]. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/7058 https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/7058 [2]: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/users/issues/26 https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/users/issues/26