[gabcoh]

Such things already exist. Eg. Appimage or even docker.

[lnxg33k1]

and even that has been managed to be split between snap appimage and flatpak :D

(sorry not meant to offend, long time linux day-to-day user here, but it was just ironic for me to point out fragmentation of fragmentation ^^)

[bravetraveler]

Right, but I don't really want to get into a distribution model - the hack suits me fine :)

More an exercise in curiosity than anything

Flatpak (or Snap, ew) probably deals with it fine today, Steam's there