* Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <jo...@debian.org> [2024-11-06 02:28]: [...] > Have one package diffoscope and one package diffoscope-full and you could even > have a package diffoscope-minimal and there you have user-selectable > granularity.
We already have two diffoscope packages for exactly this reason (I work on diffoscope and only have -minimal installed myself): $ apt-cache show diffoscope/sid | grep -A1 full This is a dependency package that recommends the full set of external tools, to support as many type of files as possible. $ apt-cache show diffoscope-minimal/sid | grep -A2 partial This -minimal package only recommends a partial set of the supported 3rd party tools needed to produce file-format-specific comparisons, excluding those that are considered too large or niche for general use. - Fay
