Somehow document which packages and tools are part of the installers

[hoechenberger]

I doubt most users will be aware of the fact that we bundle FSLeyes, the GitHub CLI, and other super helpful tools if we don't tell them we do.

We removed this list from the MNE docs out of fear it would be outdated very quickly.

Since all installed "extra" conda packages are listed in construct.yaml, it should be relatively easy to generate a nicely-formatted list of bundled packages every time we build the installers. I think it could be as simple as a markdown table (left column: package name; right column: short description of what it does)

This list could live in this repository, and the official MNE docs would just link to it.

WDYT, @agramfort @larsoner?

[agramfort]

no strong feeling here. I never user fsleyes and I still don't use the GH CLI :)

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[hoechenberger]

But even so, there's many more packages and tools that we bundle :) like dcm2nixx
In the future, we could even include git if we wanted to …

[larsoner]

Cross-ref mne-tools/mne-python#11831 which is related