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by oconnor663 1090 days ago
If a C library used Python to run its tests, I don't think we would consider the whole Python interpreter to be part of the software supply chain for that library. Sure it's possible that running tests on a build machine could let an attacker corrupt the build later, with a bad PyPI package or something. But that feels more like a "not having a clean build environment" problem than a "this project has too many dependencies" problem. I think the fact that Cargo manages these two lists in the same file makes the relationship feel tighter, but I'm not sure it's actually tighter.