Just like Nix cache…. but worse.
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Yeah, I get that. I was daily driving Guix for quite a long time and really enjoyed it. As I understand it shares a lot of code with Nix. It's just been a bit hard to integrate with a lot of the software I run due to it not being compatible with the traditional filesystem hierarchy. This is obviously a selling point for Nix/Guix as it frees it to try new ideas, but makes it harder for me to run my music production software for example, which I can't run in flatpak officially and since it Just Works™ on Debian, I'm happy with it. Maybe I'll get into it sometime again as the community seems to have grown a lot, and I've looked into running Nix on top of my Debian install.
I daily drive NixOS and often have similar issues with FHS-style software even with flatpac so I completely understand.
So, my system for years has been a squid proxy jail with plenty of disk space, works great so far.
I can see where this might be better, but squid solves a few of my issues including limiting outbound connections for most of my apps to the ones I know they need.
Been using this with my debian machines for years. I have VMs spanning versions 8-10 but set it up when Wheezy was still prominent and it's always worked well.
Oh I've been looking for something like this! Thanks for sharing :D
Or just use debmirror.