Actually he just wants to install things on the host, which flys in the face of containerise all the things.
YMMV but I think coreos has a good base to support the latter.
Easiest way to accomplish that is to run your dev inside containers... Then it's exactly the same. ;-)
I suspect many already do that. From experience, it's still easier to develop on and deploy to the same container host OS. Ie: Docker on Ubuntu for both is best. You'd be hard pressed to do development on CoreOS/Container Linux.