> One thing is to decide to vendor everything - that's your prerogative - but it's very likely that pulling everything in also pulls in tons of stuff that you a

> One thing is to decide to vendor everything - that's your prerogative - but it's very likely that pulling everything in also pulls in tons of stuff that you aren't using, because recursively vendoring dependencies means you are also pulling in dev-dependencies, optional dependencies (including default-off features), and so on. What you're describing is a problem with how Cargo does vendoring, and yes, it's awful. It should not be called vendoring, it is just "local mirroring", which is not the same thing. But Rust can work just fine without Cargo or Crates.io.