Support more sophisticated registration of modules by providing `ApplicationModules.merge(ApplicationModules)`

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I want to use spring-modulith in a cross application (cross team) way, where modules may be shared by multiple applications (don't be confused with @Modulithic.sharedModules). Providing following project:

my-app // my-app is maintained by team A
├─ pom.xml
├─ src/main/java
│  ├─ com.example.app
│  │  ├─ Application.java
│  │  ├─ moduleA/
│  │  ├─ moduleB/
├─ Maven Dependencies
│  ├─ shared-module-foo.jar  // shared modules maintained by other teams. e.g. team B
│  │  ├─ com.example.shared.foo
│  ├─ shared-module-bar.jar
│  │  ├─ com.example.shared.bar
│  ├─ spring-boot-starter-shared-modules.jar

Currently, shared modules foo and bar can be registered by annotating Application with @Modulithic(additionalPackages = { "com.example.shared" }) . But I want shared modules get registered in a auto configuration way, instead of additionalPackages, because team A don't need to know the detail of shared modules and shared modules even don't share same parent package.

I want to implement something like:

//in spring-boot-starter-shared-modules.jar

@AutoConfiguration
class SharedModulesAutoConfiguration {

    @Bean
    @ConditionalOnMissingBean
    @AutoConfigureOrder(-1)
    public ApplicationModulesRuntime modulesRuntime(ApplicationRuntime runtime) {
        ThrowingSupplier<ApplicationModules> modules = () -> EXECUTOR
                .submit(() -> ApplicationModules.of(runtime.getMainApplicationClass()) //default implement
                    .merge(ApplicationModules.of("com.example.shared")))  // shared modules get registered
                .get();

        return new ApplicationModulesRuntime(modules, runtime);
    }
}

Moreover, shared modules should use EXPLICITLY_ANNOTATED ApplicationModuleDetectionStrategy, while modules in com.example.app keep using the default one - DIRECT_SUB_PACKAGES.

Any suggestion?