Is there a way to change the name of a binary from cargo install

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I am not a regular user of Rust, but I use some tools that are in cargo.
Today I want to install the crate du-dust, but the name of the binary (dust) conflict with a different program I have installed.

My solution right now is to clone the project, edit the Cargo.toml and install from there.
That's fine, but I wondered if there was a better way to do it, directly from cargo (with a flag or something).

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--root can specify the directory to put the installed binary, e.g.

$ cargo install du-dust --root ./tmp

then mv ./tmp/bin/dust ~/.cargo/bin/dust-lol

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But wait, what about installing it the normal way and renaming it in where it's installed...

cargo install du-dust
mv ~/.cargo/bin/dust ~/.cargo/bin/dust-lol
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