Stop setting CARGO_HOME on Cargo

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Problem you are trying to solve

Cargo would like to detect when the user has set CARGO_HOME and act on that appropriately for https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/1734 but rustup always sets it

Solution you'd like

At the All Hands, we talked about rustup not setting this anymore. It is set to ensure rustup and cargo are in-sync, particularly when they had different definitions of CARGO_HOME. The first step will be to qualify the versions and platforms for which CARGO_HOME diverged between the two programs so we can evaluate how bad the problem is and what we can do to mitigate it.

Possible mitigations include:

• Have the users manually set CARGO_HOME when running an old version of Cargo
• Have the proxy determine whether it needs to set CARGO_HOME, at the risk of impacting performance

Notes

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If anyone picks this up, I did some initial digging and some relevant links are

• https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/pull/117 (2016)
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/pull/1919 (2019)
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/pull/2393 (2020)
• https://github.com/brson/home