cargo-udeps
Find unused dependencies in Cargo.toml.
While compilation of this tool also works on Rust stable,
it needs Rust nightly to actually run.
Installation
GitHub Releases
https://github.com/est31/cargo-udeps/releases
cargo install (crates.io)
cargo install cargo-udeps --locked
cargo install (master)
cargo install --git https://github.com/est31/cargo-udeps --locked
Dedicated packages
Some GNU/Linux distros have packaged cargo-udeps:
- Nix/Nix OS:
cargo-udeps - Arch via AUR:
yay -S cargo-udeps
Usage
cargo +nightly udeps
It either prints out a "unused crates" line listing the crates,
or it prints out a line saying that no crates were unused.
Ignoring some of the dependencies
To ignore some of the dependencies, add package.metadata.cargo-udeps.ignore to Cargo.toml.
[package.metadata.cargo-udeps.ignore]
normal = ["if_chain"]
#development = []
#build = []
[dependencies]
if_chain = "1.0.0" # Used only in doc-tests, which `cargo-udeps` cannot check.
Known bugs
-
Some unused crates might not be detected.
This includes crates used by std and its dependencies as well as crates that
are already being used by dependencies of the studied crate. -
Crates are currently only handled on a per name basis.
Two crates with the same name but different versions would be a problem.
Trophy case
This is a list of cases where unused dependencies were found using cargo-udeps.
You are welcome to expand it:
- https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/519
- https://github.com/servo/pathfinder/pull/236
- https://github.com/oconnor663/shared_child.rs/commit/5929637f5cf1bebc5d608b4d98fd5c8a10626712
- https://github.com/oconnor663/bao/commit/d216ee7c04e3587925dee68cce0b2a1ba44bc1d2
- https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/commit/03b685673bebbc95e2bcbd7c85358547bcffe8c3
- https://github.com/rust-lang/crater/pull/446
- https://github.com/kodegenix/kg-tree/commit/0270ec495887cf0ff7580155db4ff12664614ee8
- https://github.com/opereon/opereon/commit/4d29cf174c0b178c1484f698ceb0e654f95a78d0
- https://github.com/djg/audioipc-2/commit/de0fc58cf1e87079027fce06b50eeffa6ae23d54
- https://github.com/casey/just/pull/587
- https://github.com/Garvys/rustfst/pull/76
- https://github.com/yewstack/yew_router/pull/252
License
This tool is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license
and the Apache License (Version 2.0), at your option.
See LICENSE for details.
License of your contributions
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for
inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license,
shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.