Both of them provide that option. I've never installed rust without a package manager. Why would I?

> Why would I?

Because then you can install it without depending on a package manager?

Yeah, from source in that case. Or using a verified binary if I absolutely had to.

	▲	qarl2 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, if you want to, you can do that. Understand that 99% are comfortable trusting downloads. They know that it's just as easy to sneak backdoors into source code as it is to sneak backdoors into executables. See also: XZ hack.