cargo-vet

Part of the rust dependency issue is that the compiler only multithreads at the crate level currently (slowly being improved on nightly, but there's still some bugs before they can roll out the parallel compiler), so most libraries split themselves up into a ton of small crates because otherwise they just take too long to compile. edit: Also, `cargo-vet` is useful for distributed auditing of crates. There's also `cargo-crev`, but afaik it doesn't have buy in from the megacorps like cargo-vet and last I checked didn't have as many/as consistent reviews. https://github.com/mozilla/cargo-vet https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev

Well but that’s the problem. You cannot fully automate this. You have to manually check the diff of each dependency and only accept the dependabot PR if the changes are safe. The only automation that I know of is cargo vet. Although it doesn’t work for GitHub Actions, the idea sounds useful. Basically, vet allows people who trust each other to vet updates. So one person verifies the diff and then approves the changes. Next, everyone who trusts this person can update the dependency automatically since it has been “vetted”. [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/cargo-vet