As far as I can tell, today it doesn't make much sense to publish [bin
]-only packages on crates.io, since they won't provide any functionality for dependent packages.
Is there a plan to create functionality (like rubygems and npm have) to install (and possibly update) executable packages on the system?
It would have some overlap with OS package managers (like apt
, yum
, pacman
, homebrew
...), but benefit from the fact that it would get the most up-to-date version of the package, and that it would include the ones that aren't popular enough to be "blessed" by the OS.