Thanks; I get it. I was thinking maybe the open source community has discussed this in some detail. I'm not actively involved in any such discussions, but I did a quick look and found that "Documentation for cargo vendor use cases" [1] is a decent starting point to jump in. In that thread a user named 'rimutaka' has a comment titled "cargo vendor-related questions asked by the community" [2] of related conversations.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/7520

[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/7520#issuecomment-...