Some people try to inspect code outside of a project before including it into something. Say there is a Github repo with a crate called "totally_safe_crate", a

Some people try to inspect code outside of a project before including it into something. Say there is a Github repo with a crate called "totally_safe_crate", and I want to use this crate in my project, but I am not sure whether I can trust it or not. What do I do? What I would likely do is clone the repo, then open my editor and look through the source and whatnot and make my decision. In this case I never intend to run "cargo run" at all, but I may want to run an LSP server to help inspect the code, or I may accidentally enable LSP in the editor out of habit or something. In this case, it would be nice if I could be certain that simply inspecting and reading code was safe, but as it stands now, in Rust, this is not the case. We can't even inspect code to make sure it's safe unless we open the source files in a "dumb" editor. In your example you are just adding a crate to cargo.toml and firing off cargo, so of course it's not going to be useful there. Some of us may want to be more cautious than that and actually read code before putting it in our projects.