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[Feature Request][common-utils]: add additionalPackages option

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Description

common-utils currently adds common packages depending on the distribution. This task would expand the functionality with a new option called additionalPackages that would simply pass the package manager additional packages for installing.

It looks like there is a feature which does this and it sounds like the author believes common-utils might be a good place for such functionality to move into.

Comment from #67
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Hi, I published `apt-packages` Feature to install apt packages.
https://github.com/rocker-org/devcontainer-features/tree/main/src/apt-packages

Something better than (perhaps supports more than just apt?) may become available here in the future, but for now we can use it to install any apt package without a Dockerfile.

_Originally posted by @eitsupi in
https://github.com/devcontainers/features/issues/67#issuecomment-1346642565_
```

Alternately move https://github.com/rocker-org/devcontainer-features/tree/main/src/apt-packages into https://github.com/devcontainers/features and expand to work on alpine and redhat.

Possible name: native-package-manager

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