the challenge would be that updates to the container (if still using a container) would be on a lower layer than whatever is being installed in the homedir. So all updates would be on you locally.
Wolfi container with a persistent volume in home that is overlayed /usr in the container. The challenge is that eventually everythin is just in your upper layer
I ran that with a fedora quadlet and after a few weeks, I effectively had just made what distrobox does but with the added fun of having the image shift underneath you
Doing this would be a challenge. It looks like you both got to the bottom of the complications. I would love to be able to fully replace brew with Wolfi by having applications built for Wolfi install to home but the big issue there is we aren't building out everything statically. Everything would have to run out of the container
I'm still thinking podmansh + Bluefin CLI makes the most sense at the moment. Still sad we can't use a sysext as that's literally the perfect solution
I feel like we get a better integration with distrobox over podmansh. Though I'm unsure if we need all of that integration for bluefin-cli since it only needs a cli experience