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- Battery packs are curated sets of crates around common themes to help developers choose high-quality crates without extensive research.
- Anyone can create a battery pack by publishing a crate named X-battery-pack with dependencies as recommendations.
- Battery packs include dependencies, features, templates, and structured categories (e.g., 'pick at most one' or 'pick any number').
- They aim to address challenges like crate selection for new Rust adopters and foster interoperability and maintenance funding.
- Risks include potential overcrowding of packs, but they are designed to evolve and avoid stagnation in the ecosystem.