Any workarounds for publishing on crates.io without publishing all deps?

[mbrubeck]

This recent thread discusses automated scripts for publishing multiple packages together:

Publish dependent crates together (w/o sleep hack)

I was gonna post this to answer to this post: but then I thought it was kind of out of topic so I guess a dedicated thread makes more sense. I noticed: https://github.com/matklad/xshell/blob/a419eb5/examples/ci.rs#L63 So I see I'm not the only one using sleep to "chain" publications when crates depend on each other The question then is: do people know of a less hacky way of achieving this?

In the long term, something like this proposal might allow publishing a group of library crates together as a single package:

Multiple libraries in a cargo project