CARGO-REMOVE(1)

💖 CARGO-REMOVE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the cargo-remove page from the General Commands Manual — yes it's a real manual, yes it's iconic, and yes we're gonna read the whole thing together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

cargo-remove — Remove dependencies from a Cargo.toml manifest file

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cargo remove [options] dependency…

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Remove one or more dependencies from a Cargo.toml manifest. that's it, that's the whole vibe. it's giving "spring cleaning but for your dependency list" 🧹✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

🌸 Section options 🌸

• --dev — Remove as a development dependency <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-dependencies.html#development-dependencies>. (that's your dev-deps era 💅)
• --build — Remove as a build dependency <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-dependencies.html#build-dependencies>. (build scripts said bye 👋)
• --target target — Remove as a dependency to the given target platform <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-dependencies.html#platform-specific-dependencies>.

To avoid unexpected shell expansions, you may use quotes around each target, e.g., --target 'cfg(unix)'.

literally just wrap it in quotes bestie, your shell is NOT your friend here 😭

🍓 Miscellaneous Options 🍓

• --dry-run — Don't actually write to the manifest. (a little window-shopping moment, no commitment, no cap 🙈)

🌈 Display Options 🌈

• -v, --verbose — Use verbose output. May be specified twice for "very verbose" output which includes extra output such as dependency warnings and build script output. May also be specified with the term.verbose config value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>. (double it for the extra lore 🔥)
• -q, --quiet — Do not print cargo log messages. May also be specified with the term.quiet config value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>. (silent mode, main character energy, no commentary 🤫)
• --color when — Control when colored output is used. Valid values:
  • auto (default): Automatically detect if color support is available on the terminal.
  • always: Always display colors.
  • never: Never display colors.

May also be specified with the term.color config value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>.

💜 Manifest Options 💜

• --manifest-path path — Path to the Cargo.toml file. By default, Cargo searches for the Cargo.toml file in the current directory or any parent directory. (it'll go looking up the family tree for it 🧚)
• --frozen, --locked — Either of these flags requires that the Cargo.lock file is up-to-date. If the lock file is missing, or it needs to be updated, Cargo will exit with an error. The --frozen flag also prevents Cargo from attempting to access the network to determine if it is out-of-date.

These may be used in environments where you want to assert that the Cargo.lock file is up-to-date (such as a CI build) or want to avoid network access.

• --offline — Prevents Cargo from accessing the network for any reason. Without this flag, Cargo will stop with an error if it needs to access the network and the network is not available. With this flag, Cargo will attempt to proceed without the network if possible.

Beware that this may result in different dependency resolution than online mode. Cargo will restrict itself to crates that are downloaded locally, even if there might be a newer version as indicated in the local copy of the index. See the cargo-fetch(1) command to download dependencies before going offline.

May also be specified with the net.offline config value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>. (airplane mode but make it cargo ✈️)

🎀 Package Selection 🎀

• -p spec…, --package spec… — Package to remove from.

⭐ Common Options ⭐

• +toolchain — If Cargo has been installed with rustup, and the first argument to cargo begins with +, it will be interpreted as a rustup toolchain name (such as +stable or +nightly). See the rustup documentation <https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/overrides.html> for more information about how toolchain overrides work.
• --config KEY=VALUE or PATH — Overrides a Cargo configuration value. The argument should be in TOML syntax of KEY=VALUE, or provided as a path to an extra configuration file. This flag may be specified multiple times. See the command-line overrides section <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#command-line-overrides> for more information.
• -C PATH — Changes the current working directory before executing any specified operations. This affects things like where cargo looks by default for the project manifest (Cargo.toml), as well as the directories searched for discovering .cargo/config.toml, for example. This option must appear before the command name, for example cargo -C path/to/my-project build.

This option is only available on the nightly channel <https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/appendix-07-nightly-rust.html> and requires the -Z unstable-options flag to enable (see #10098 <https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/10098>).

so like, nightly girlies only, and you gotta flip the unstable switch 💀

• -h, --help — Prints help information.
• -Z flag — Unstable (nightly-only) flags to Cargo. Run cargo -Z help for details.

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🌱 ENVIRONMENT 🌱

See the reference <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/environment-variables.html> for details on environment variables that Cargo reads.

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🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

• 0: Cargo succeeded. (ate. no crumbs. 👑)
• 101: Cargo failed to complete. (it's giving pain 😭)

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🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

1. Remove regex as a dependency

cargo remove regex

2. Remove trybuild as a dev-dependency

cargo remove --dev trybuild

3. Remove nom from the x86_64-pc-windows-gnu dependencies table

cargo remove --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu nom

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💅 SEE ALSO 💅

cargo(1), cargo-add(1)

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