Detecting unnecessary dependencies in cargo.toml

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Is there anyway to detect if a dependency in Cargo.toml is unnecessary?

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Check out cargo-udeps.

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There's also cargo-machete.

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Unfortunately that requires nightly

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That is what I am looking for

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The easiest way to prevent from building unused deps is set -F/-D unused-crate-dependencies in .cargo/config.toml file if you don't want to install third party tools.

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F/-D unused-crate-dependencies in .cargo/config.toml

I had no idea what ".cargo/config.toml"is for, and only a hazy idea it existed
Here it is