Suggest another toolchain when removing a component/target unavailable to the current toolchain
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- Rust
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Description
Problem you are trying to solve
rustup updatefails (unrelated to issue)
rustup target remove wasm32-wasifails
rustup +target remove wasm32-wasisucceeds, as the default toolchain was nightly as specified in.rustup/settings.toml
Solution you'd like
Rustup could search and suggest targets on other versions when the default does not have the target
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the listed rustup commands, especially target removal with the default nightly toolchain from .rustup/settings.toml. Determine the expected suggestion when the target is unavailable to the current toolchain, then verify that another suitable toolchain is suggested while the unrelated update failure remains unchanged.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100