Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

[Fay Stegerman <flx@obfusk.net>]

* Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@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