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		spoiler 34 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 N... The reason he went down this rabbit hole was because he was chronically running low on disk space, and his target dir was one of the largest contributors. Not sure how he actually got the number; this was just a frustrated Slack message like 4 years ago A sibling comment mentions we could have been using Cargo workspaces wrong... So, maybe?

burntsushi 34 days ago [–]

He probably just needed to run `cargo clean` occasionally.

But you definitely aren't finding hundreds of versions of `regex` in the same dependency tree.

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