Trying to impact my real/working laptop as little as possible. Isolate my hypothesis of “this is how to fix the bug” to some ephemeral configs/changes that won’t stick around. So the build-vm or test options I found seem to be what I’d intended.
Got it, thanks. Seems there’s a lot of flexibility, but that means lots of nix architecture I need to learn to grok my options better. I’ll start with jtojnar’s two ideas and see what happens.