@novenary @ari @privateger

because rust dep graphs are gigantic
and cargo is actively unfriendly about doing local libraries, as you can't precompile an rlib and use it as a static library system wide, and if you want to build a local index for source install, there's so much manual boilerplate and finicky setup
*and* it still involves patching out the lockfiles because, while cargo-install ignores the lockfiles, cargo-build doesn't

i personally worked on trying out per-crate packages for gentoo, it is a goal for us to do that because everything else will be less painful, but cargo actively makes that hell