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authorVagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>2020-02-06 13:45:28 -0800
committerVagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>2020-02-06 13:51:55 -0800
commitf83d07f7778b699d46741a5667113342f5f0a737 (patch)
tree733650fcda8bec195aa13e539ff17df0139e1101
parent06d41d8d498dec2cedcb778cde50d13a5d95dc0e (diff)
downloadguix-f83d07f7778b699d46741a5667113342f5f0a737.tar.gz
gnu: diffoscope: Update description.
* gnu/packages/diffoscope (diffoscope)[description]: Mention optional
  dependencies.
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/diffoscope.scm6
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/diffoscope.scm b/gnu/packages/diffoscope.scm
index 998a71aeab..534d859812 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/diffoscope.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/diffoscope.scm
@@ -217,7 +217,11 @@
        "Diffoscope tries to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories
 different.  It recursively unpacks archives of many kinds and transforms
 various binary formats into more human readable forms to compare them.  It can
-compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDFs just as easily.")
+compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDFs just as easily.
+
+Diffoscope has many optional dependencies; @code{diffoscope
+--list-missing-tools guix} will display optional packages to
+install.")
       (license license:gpl3+))))
 
 (define-public trydiffoscope