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by gspr 1521 days ago
> Hi, I would like to know what's wrong with a lot of dependencies?

I'm not saying that there's necessarily anything wrong with a lot of dependencies. It can be, but that's a separate discussion. What I'm saying is that it's wrong to pretend that you don't have a lot of dependencies when you actually do.

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Ah I think there was miscommunication due to mental biases. Like I misunderstood your objection, you probably misunderstood the docs. I don't think the author is pretending anything. The docs says that it depends on procfs to highlight it as the main dependency or maybe the odd one.

In Rust community, it's a common knowledge that 1. If it's a high level tool, it will have multiple dependencies, and 2. The actual dependency list will be auto generated by the package managers (cargo or os) and be pinned in every release, available publicly.