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> 1) only having one version of crates

Same as any other library provided by the distribution in any other language.

> 2) mismatched features

Same as any other library provided by the distribution in any other language.

> 3) new transitive dependencies that can be introduced at any time without any warning

Not in packaged Rust libraries in Fedora, at least. Please read the aforementioned link.

> 4) only supporting one version of rust

Same as any other library provided by the distribution in any other language.

> 5) packages being noarch and basically glorified distro-wide vendoring

Packages containing only source is a consequence of the Rust ABI still stabilizing, see: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/105586 After ABI stabilization, Rust libraries will be first class like any other language.




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