--no-deps seems to have no effect

[guidomb]

Before opening an issue I wanted to check what's the expected behavior. I'm running clippy on CI as follows:

cargo clippy --all-targets -- -Dwarnings --no-deps

and I get the following output and it takes 4 minutes to run on GitHub Actions:

Run cargo clippy --all-targets -- -Dwarnings --no-deps
  cargo clippy --all-targets -- -Dwarnings --no-deps
  shell: sh -e {0}
  env:
    CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
    CACHE_ON_FAILURE: false
    CARGO_INCREMENTAL: 0
  
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   Compiling openssl-macros v0.1.1
   Compiling native-tls v0.2.[11](https://github.com/cedalio/cedalio/actions/runs/5720785317/job/15501297753#step:15:12)
    Checking elliptic-curve v0.13.5
   Compiling strum_macros v0.24.3
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   Compiling auto_impl v1.1.0
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   Compiling open-fastrlp-derive v0.1.1
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    Checking signature v2.1.0
   Compiling num_enum_derive v0.6.1
    Checking sha1 v0.10.5
    Checking impl-serde v0.4.0
    Checking mime v0.3.17
    Checking block-padding v0.2.1
    Checking block-buffer v0.9.0
   Compiling rustls v0.21.2
    Checking ecdsa v0.16.7
    Checking io-lifetimes v1.0.11
    Checking digest v0.9.0
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    Checking rustix v0.37.20
   Compiling wasm-bindgen-backend v0.2.87
    Checking k256 v0.13.1
    Checking ethbloom v0.13.0
    Checking primitive-types v0.[12](https://github.com/cedalio/cedalio/actions/runs/5720785317/job/15501297753#step:15:13).1
   Compiling rustc_version v0.4.0
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   Compiling rustls v0.20.8
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   Compiling mime_guess v2.0.4
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   Compiling hashbrown v0.[14](https://github.com/cedalio/cedalio/actions/runs/5720785317/job/15501297753#step:15:15).0
   Compiling equivalent v1.0.0
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   Compiling graphql-introspection-query v0.2.0
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It looks like --no-deps has no effect. Am I doing something wrong or interpreting this wrong?

[flip1995]

The --no-deps flag, prevents lints from being emitted for your dependencies. The dependencies still need to be compiled though. The --no-deps flag makes the most sense in workspaces. In workspaces lints will be emitted for all packages contained in the workspace (on which the current -p <package-name> depends on). This can be noisy, so the --no-deps flag is there to suppress those lints.

For all the other non-path dependencies for your crate, the lints will already be suppressed by cargo/rustc itself.

[guidomb]

I understand that deps need to be compiled what confuses me is that for some dependencies a line starting with "Checking ..." appears. What do those mean? Is it clippy checking?

[flip1995]

"Checking" means, that no codegen is run for that crate, so the LLVM step is skipped and no binary is produced for example. "Compiling" means that the crate is fully compiled. For your example this seems to be necessary for some crates (even when just checking with cargo clippy or cargo check), because there are proc-macros involved.

[guidomb]

Thanks for the explanation!