[mdaniel]

I see this in almost every thread on this topic, but feel it buries the lede since its dependency upon nix makes it more complicated than it seems, at least every time I've revisited it. Maybe it's an artifact of its 0.x version, or the fact that I have improper expectations

With regard to your "CI" use case, this is part of why I said I must have improper expectations because

  $ docker run --name dbox ubuntu:22.04 bash -c 'curl -fsSL https://get.jetpack.io/devbox | FORCE=1 bash; devbox init; devbox add awscli2; devbox add zulu@11'
  $ docker exec dbox du -hs /nix
  4.1G    /nix

and that's just the simple version, on Linux, and thus is likely the happy-path in CI.

When trying to use it locally on macOS, this here is just some "you wanna do _what_?!": https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/tree/v0.... (not to pick on determinate.systems, the upstream is similarly facepalm: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/installing-... )