warning: user-defined alias `xtask` is shadowing an external subcommand

[dyoung522]

When installing xtask per the README, I'm getting the following error when running any xtask command:

warning: user-defined alias `xtask` is shadowing an external subcommand found at: `<homedir-redacted>/.cargo/bin/cargo-xtask`
This was previously accepted but is being phased out; it will become a hard error in a future release.
For more information, see issue #10049 <https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/10049>.
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Using rustc 1.73.0 (cc66ad468 2023-10-03)

[matklad]

Try running cargo uninstall cargo-xtask: it seems that you have cargo-xtask sub command installed, but no such sub command is needed. It’s the thing about xtask pattern that it doesn’t rely on 3rd party utilities.

I do have https://crates.io/crates/cargo-xtask published, just to prevent some malware squatting the name.