Yes. NixOs uses the NiX package manager (that you can install in any other distro too).
The NiX package manager installs each version of a package to a directory, the trick being that each version of each package goes to a folder whose name is a hash of all the inputs of the build (files, build parameters, specific build folders of this builds dependencies, etc).
As a result, not only can you have different versions of a package: you can even have different builds of the same version (that you built with different build configuration and/or versiona of its dependencies).
The concept is sound. The issue is that you need the ability to actually build the application (you need the source) and you probably have to adjust its own build process to get it to work properly with NiX.
The NiX package manager installs each version of a package to a directory, the trick being that each version of each package goes to a folder whose name is a hash of all the inputs of the build (files, build parameters, specific build folders of this builds dependencies, etc).
As a result, not only can you have different versions of a package: you can even have different builds of the same version (that you built with different build configuration and/or versiona of its dependencies).
The concept is sound. The issue is that you need the ability to actually build the application (you need the source) and you probably have to adjust its own build process to get it to work properly with NiX.
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