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Steps to reproduce

Looks like some packages have to have the ref directory in the powershell home
($PSHOME is set to /usr/share/pwsh-7.3).

Here is an example of importing PowerShellGet, this complains about missfing ref.

Here importing PSDesiredStateConfiguration fails completely:

Also the Alpine package seems to have similar PSHOME contents, no ref directory, see: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/contents?repo=community&page=1&arch=x86_64&branch=edge&name=powershell

Expected behavior

Powershell build scripts copy or link to the location of required assemblies,
and so using those modules work.
Or use current runtime assemblies when the package is not "self-contained".

Actual behavior

While attempting to import PSDesiredStateConfiguration it fails to import fully, see below error.

Error details

While importing PSDesiredStateConfiguration:

Add-Type: Could not find a part of the path '/usr/share/pwsh-7.3/ref'.
Import-Module: The specified module
'/home/xy/.local/share/powershell/Modules/PSDesiredStateConfiguration/2.0.6/helpers/DscResourceInfo.psm1' was not
loaded because no valid module file was found in any module directory.

Environment data

PSVersionTable:

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.3.3
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.3.3
OS                             Linux 6.1.12-gentoo-magentalane-2023.02.21 #5 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Feb 20 23:50:…
Platform                       Unix
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

And the runtime:

.NET SDK:
 Version:   7.0.201
 Commit:    68f2d7e7a3

Środowisko uruchomieniowe:
 OS Name:     gentoo
 OS Version:  2.13
 OS Platform: Linux
 RID:         linux-x64
 Base Path:   /opt/dotnet-sdk-bin-7.0/sdk/7.0.201/

Host:
  Version:      7.0.3
  Architecture: x64
  Commit:       0a2bda10e8

.NET SDKs installed:
  7.0.201 [/opt/dotnet-sdk-bin-7.0/sdk]

.NET runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.3 [/opt/dotnet-sdk-bin-7.0/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.3 [/opt/dotnet-sdk-bin-7.0/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]