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Unnecessary `package` field

Reports unnecessary package keys in Cargo.toml dependency declarations. The package key is usually used for renaming dependencies, so it is unnecessary if its value matches the name of the dependency.

Locating this inspection

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

CargoUnnecessaryPackageKey
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Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Rust | Cargo.toml

Inspection ID: CargoUnnecessaryPackageKey

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection CargoUnnecessaryPackageKey

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

CLion 2025.3,

Can be installed with plugin:

Rust, 253.29183.0

Last modified: 03 December 2025