The primary goal of the DEP system—and specifically Version 46—is to ensure safety, technical integrity, and economic efficiency across Shell's operations.

You are migrating a 20-year-old Solaris server to RHEL 9. The old scripts use hardcoded paths like /opt/local/bin/custom . With Shell Dep Version 46, you create a compatibility layer:

You have 50 Bash scripts for AWS operations, many sharing logging.sh and aws-helpers.sh . Without Shell Dep, you manually source files, leading to duplicate sourcing and variable collisions.