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

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 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/ripgrep-bin.rb https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/pkg/brew/r...