Provide a php dependency only image without wordpress specific files

Could it be possible for the WordPress docker image to provide a php dependency only tag variant ?

The regular image currently provides a zip with a version of WordPress and a custom entry point. But you sometimes do not need thoses files and they might also mess your custom setup (for example extracting WP while it shouldn't).

It would be great if this current image is split into 2 stages, one for the php dependencies, and the next one for the wordpress specific files. This should allow me to reuse the wordpress image to build my own docker image ?

I would see maybe a stage around here: https://github.com/docker-library/wordpress/blob/67e960d91c547417cd879adddf9c1cf0f1dc7a95/latest/php7.4/apache/Dockerfile#L123

We could then have for example:

FROM wordpress:apache-bare

COPY . /var/www/html

Start with latest/php7.4/apache/Dockerfile around line 123, the location identified in the issue, and inspect how the current image packages WordPress files and its entry point. Define a separate dependency-only image stage or tag that can be used with FROM, while preserving the existing WordPress image behavior; verify the example custom image can reuse it without those files.