[lproven]

> In particular, the remote composability and local deployment is extremely useful for "cattle" edge system deployment.

A legitimate point, but I feel that there must be better, cleaner, simpler, more elegant ways of doing this.

I mean, Nix does this and it's clean in its way, but the price is, a filesystem layout that is not navigable or maintainable by humans. IMHO and that of many people, that's a price too high, but it shows that there are alternative routes.