As far as I know, currently rustc depend on curl for downloading files. ``` $grep curl src/etc/* src/etc/snapshot.py: returncode = subprocess.call(["curl", "-o", tmpf, u]) Binary file src/etc/snapshot.pyc matches src/etc/unicode.py: os.system("curl -O http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/%s" ``` However, we can actually remove this dependency by python's owner power.