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smeagull on Sept 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Pytho...

Cargo allows you to share a single package directory. Having a single site-packages and the ability to import a particular version (or latest by default) would solve this.

Asraelite on Sept 7, 2022 [–]

This is also nice because you can clean up your build files all in one go. Every now and again I delete my cargo target directory and get 5GB back.

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