The package "rawtherapee" provides two binaries, rawtherapee and rawtherapee-cli. The proposal is to separate those binaries into two independent packages.

One important usecase for rawtherapee-cli is to process jobs unattended in scripts. For example, via inotify a new raw image (or processing queue) is detected, and rawtherapee-cli is invoked. Another scenario is cron invoking rawtherapee-cli e.g. at night.

This typically (well, at least possibly) happens on a headless machine, be it a file server or a dedicated processing "workhorse". It is deemed a good practice to try to avoid unnecessary dependencies on those machines.

A dedicated rawtherapee-cli package would allow to install this binary on headless machines without pulling in a bunch of GUI dependencies. The very same concept is to be found with "handbrake" and "handbrake-cli".

So the question is, is this possible without two much of a maintenance burden?

Kind Regards, Joe