initial attempt at per package layering #158
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As discussed in #153
implement per-package layering a la https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images/, using nix's existing popularity algorithm.
The package graph is determine heuristically, by looking for the first installed package that satisfies each of a packages
requires
.Cycles are then removed arbitrarily using Python's TopologicalSorter before the graph is passed to the nix popularity function.
This is likely to affect determinism of the image manifest:
A layer is created for each of the most popular packages. Each layer has it's own "clamp_mtime", which is taken from the package build date, so package layer digests are consistent across builds.
TODO