[gnufied]

Looks pretty neat and available in default fedora 36 repos. But list of dependencies it pulls in is huge! 566!

I wasn't expecting to install 566 packages for installing something that can compare directories. :-)

[pabs3]

It also compares a ton of different formats, by converting them all to plain text and diffing that. All the deps are for those format converters. On Debian at least there is a minimal version with much fewer deps, since all the deps are pretty much optional.

[ciupicri]

Try

    dnf install --setopt='install_weak_deps=False' diffoscope