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• @urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 2026-10-25 20:23

  yes, but to manually build packages against libraries yourself would be a nightmare of tooling without cargo. It’s no different than every base-devel and similar package requiring cmake because sure, you could manually run the c/c++ compilers and linkers yourself against every single folder, passing in the flags yourself, but that would take an obscene amount of time to manually build and run every compiler command yourself wiki.debian.org/Rust Debian builds it’s own local cargo registry by default. If your distro provides “pinned versions” like a said, you won’t need rustup, but you’ll still need cargo to do anything beyond a tiny project with no imports, unless you plan on writing async/http/encryption libraries all yourself.

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