Exclude certain dependencies

[lf-]

I want to deploy reindeer in vendoring mode, but it seems that this causes 200MB of binaries to get checked into version control due to the winapi crate which I don't want in my dependency tree to begin with (we don't support Windows and probably never will). This is in turn because of a dependency on it by nu-ansi-term which lands a winapi dependency in the lock file.

I am not sure what is the correct thing to do about this; I realize that it's kind of a cargo vendor problem which I don't know how to get around, besides perhaps by making stub crates, but I'm raising this as something that can be a blocker to deploying reindeer in practice.

I'm currently playing around patch.crates-io and a fake stub crate.

[lf-]

Update: you can fix this with a stub crate. You just have to copy paste the features from the Cargo.toml of the real package and then put it in [patch.crates-io].