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Runtime dependencies

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the current CPS specification and compare it with the runtime-file examples described here: dynamically loaded libraries, locale files, and configuration files. Determine where runtime dependencies would belong and what extraction or relocation behavior the specification should define. Done means the proposal has an agreed scope and the specification is updated accordingly.

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Description

enhancement need discussion

The concept of runtime dependencies seems to be missing from the current spec.
By runtime files I mean anything that a program may load dynamically at runtime but isn't necessarily required at build time. Examples of such things could be dynamically loaded libraries for a plugin eco-system or locale files or configuration files.

I think an end user of a cps file should be able to extract from a linux system all the files required to actually execute something that uses the package that a cps package describes and repackage it (and potentially relocate?) onto another system that doesn't have a system level package installed on it. I'm not suggesting that's a standard workflow but this is what would be required to e.g. build a OCI container containing just a single binary from a derived program that uses the CPS package.

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