Wait, neither debian nor ubuntu distribute packages as stand alone app. They distribute it without their libs and add a layer of dependency management (I did not look into Gobo's but I guess it is similar though apparently more permissive)

And I don't see either what prevents one to distribute an application as standalone by stuffing all the libs needed in the application directory.

That's my point, you don't gain anything except a different directory structure. And if you stuff everything into one directory, size.

Ah ok, now i get it. You are stuck thinking devops and containers...