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I have encountered several project now which are Linux container/docker "native" installation. Like PhotoPrism and HomeAssistant. Yeah software dependencies are hard for developers and maintainers. But ending your software on just one install method is a "quick-fix". Apple macOS tries to "fix this" by putting everything of an application in a folder suffixed as .app. No this are no containers but all application dependencies reside in this folder. The price you pay is more disk space when multiple applications use same "Apple .framework" or libraries and other executables.
It seems nowadays the quick-fix is to enforce people using Docker for producation and when that is not available it will be wrapped again in a native Linux virtual machine. So you are almost out of luck running it otherwise. Gitlab is another beast, it runs on ruby and it has "omnibus" host installer. Which just basicly Gitlab-fies your whole OS.