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. As it includes cargo as a dependency, it will likely compile with the latest rustc release, as well as the one before it.

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 package managers have packaged cargo-udeps:

• Nix/Nix OS: cargo-udeps
• Arch Linux: pacman -S cargo-udeps
• Homebrew: brew install 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.

pre-commit

You can use it as pre-commit hook:

- repo: https://github.com/est31/cargo-udeps
  rev: v0.1.47
  hooks:
  - id: udeps

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.

Alternatively, add dependencies to workspace.metadata.cargo-udeps.ignore in the workpace Cargo.toml to ignore them in all packages in the workspace.

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
• https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoincore-rpc/pull/169
• https://github.com/hendrikmaus/helm-templexer/pull/85
• https://github.com/itchysats/itchysats/commit/99076ecb907b3bfc5f31ffcdad9716df1869c8f7
• https://github.com/isographlabs/isograph/commit/9da885db555c945d0cc3667e2a2aa94573cd8fc7

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

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.