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Output Formats

Output formats consume the manifest and emit distributable artifacts. Each one reuses the same dependency resolution step, then applies backend-specific packaging.

  • Installers — produce native self-extracting executables per target platform.
  • Container images — stage the environment into a minimal base and output an OCI archive.
  • Native packages — produce RPM and DEB artifacts for Linux distributions.

Subsequent sections describe the behaviour and outputs of each format.