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Unused deps:
cfg-if,mime_guess,sysinfoUnused dep openssl. There are mentions of it being used for "remote compilation". I have no idea what that means, or how it would work by adding a dependency like this. Not only
opensslis not referenced anywhere in code, but it's not even a build/dev dependency, and there is nobuild.rsfile.Depends on
ffmpeg-sidecarwhich apparently downloadsffmpegbinaries from weird places ifffmpegis not in$PATH, a crate apparently "inspired" by webshits, and based on a GitHub action (which clearly has a very different threat model compared to executing those binaries on end-user machines).