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| * or if all the following conditions are met: | ||
| * The crate has a single owner, | ||
| * The crate has been downloaded less than 100 times for each month it has been published, | ||
| * The crate is not depended upon by any other crate on crates.io (i.e. it has no reverse dependencies), excluding yanked versions of crates that were published over a year ago |
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With the proposed changes it becomes important to specify whether this is a direct or a transitive dependency.
(eg. consider [regular crate] -> [yanked crate] -> [crate to be deleted])
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I decided to just elaborate this section more fully to make it clearer; what do you think now?
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This RFC proposes adding a number of "reasonable changes" to the current crates.io deletion policy that will allow the deletion of several "reasonable to delete" crates which currently do not qualify.
They are definitely, directly, shamelessly motivated by the personal experience of the RFC author. Please let them know if anything was poorly or hastily worded.
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