Rust has the advantage of aggressively gating many library APIs behind feature flags as a convention. A lot of third-party libraries consist of a core of the mo

Rust has the advantage of aggressively gating many library APIs behind feature flags as a convention. A lot of third-party libraries consist of a core of the most essential functionality that the entire library just can't go without, and everything else, particularly things that require yet more external dependencies to work, is gated behind a feature. You could imagine a model where security vulnerability reports include a combination of features required to trigger that vulnerability. If the vulnerability was in a rarely-used extension, like it was for Zlib, many dependents would be automatically marked as non-vulnerable because they wouldn't have the necessary feature flag active.