[pstuart]

Depending on how the container is structured, you could have the original container as a baseline default, and then have "enhanced" containers that use it as a base and overlay the caching and other errata to serve that specialized need.

[maccard]

I’ve tried this in the past, but it pushes the dependency management pf the layers into whatever is orchestrating the container build, as opposed to multi stage builds which will parallelise!

Not dismissing, but it’s just caveats every which way. I think in an ideal world I just want Bazel or Nixos without the baggage that comes with them - docker comes so close but yet falls so short of the finish line.