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Expand gget/gget into different subtools like gget/blast, gget/ref ...

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I'm not quite convinced that we should have a general wrapper for gget as it is now...
We might need to expand it into different subtools gget/blast, gget/ref, ...
But this would be a big change outside the scope of this nf-test migration 😉

Originally posted by @LouisLeNezet in https://github.com/nf-core/modules/pull/8518#pullrequestreview-2868697804

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Start by reading the discussion quoted from pull request #8518 and inspect how the current gget wrapper is organized. Clarify which subtools are intended and how the migration scope should change; done requires an agreed design before implementation begins.

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