Features

Check why and how a dependency in your workspace gets enabled. This is useful in cases where you encounter weird build errors which are caused by unintentional inclusion of dependencies or features.

Install

cargo install feature

Examples

Recently there was a build error in the Substrate master CI which was caused by a downstream dependency snow. To investigate this, it is useful to see how Substrate depends on it.

Let's find out how node-cli depends on snow:

feature trace --manifest-path substrate/Cargo.toml node-cli snow

output:

node-cli -> try-runtime-cli -> substrate-rpc-client -> sc-rpc-api ->sc-chain-spec -> sc-telemetry -> libp2p -> libp2p-webrtc -> libp2p-noise -> snow

So it comes from libp2p, okay. Good to know.

Roadmap

• Add feature information to the enabled deps
• Allow manual skipping of dev dependencies (currently always skipped)
• Introduce filters for versions and features for argument to
• Optimize shortest_path function
• Create lint rules which can be used to validate that certain constraints in the work-space hold