Please demonstrate how the example I gave above can be done with common scripting tools, such it would mimic the declarative experience I described. I don’t think it is possible as you claim.
Can you please point to where I deflected any questions? I looked and could not find any instances of such.
I actually answered the question “why”, please refer to previous comments. It is also answered in the main post. But I will rephrase and summarize again here:
when creating a container image that requires certain applications installed, most dockerfiles explicitly install the dependencies of said applications as well. With my tool, you only declare the package you need, and it will resolve dependencies automatically and install them for you.
the above would work with distroless containers too, as the package manager used is outside of the produced container.