Child Thread: Survey of alternative identifier designs for Cargo and Crates.io

You can already do this with `package

Apersoma:

rename packages in the dependencies

You can already do this with package = "foo", unless there's some new behavior I'm overlooking?

doc.rust-lang.org

Renaming dependencies in Cargo.toml - Specifying Dependencies - The Cargo Book

Your crates can depend on other libraries from crates.io or other registries, git repositories, or subdirectories on your local file system. You can also temporarily override the location of a dependency — for example, to be able to test out a bug...