add flake attribute apps to make it easier to run #2442
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@berbiche It seems |
The downside is that we would need to keep HM's flake inputs updated and we currently do not have an automated way of doing it. |
This change also adds the required flake.lock. As a result, home-manager can be ran with `nix run --no-write-lock-file github:nix-community/home-manager`. This is useful for people who want to try out home-manager or, want to bootstrap their home-environment.
Home Manager can be ran with `nix run --no-write-lock-file github:nix-community/home-manager`. This is useful for people who want to try out Home Manager or, want to bootstrap their home-environment.
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@contrun thanks for this, what do you think about having the defaultApp be flake native, e.g. add I mentioned this earlier here: With such a wrapper we could have: And for the non-flake one it could be something like: |
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@terlar I agree. Currently we can use flake for home-manager by passing |
Noob question (I reported the #2523, so I'm an interested party noob): could it make sense to do the detection based on whether a To my noobish eyes this sounds reasonable: if someone has a |
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@akavel All the configuration should be contained in the flake itself. That's the whole point of nix flakes, to make the building hermetic. Flake version of home-manager shouldn't depend on host-specific behavior. |
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Why was this added? The default behaviour of Adding an app would only be useful if we wanted to add a default Also note that this stopped working in Nix 2.8: NixOS/nix#6448 (comment) Dropping apps in #2971 |
Add a lockfile to work around NixOS/nix#6541 (and because it's a good idea anyway). Also use flake-utils, and restrict ourselves to the five platforms supported by nixpkgs. Otherwise, the IFD for nmd fails on weird platforms. This fixes `nix flake check`. Remove the redundant `apps` output, see nix-community#2442 (comment)
Add a lockfile to work around NixOS/nix#6541 (and because it's a good idea anyway). Also use flake-utils, and restrict ourselves to the five platforms supported by nixpkgs. Otherwise, the IFD for nmd fails on weird platforms. This fixes `nix flake check`. Remove the redundant `apps` output, see nix-community#2442 (comment)
Add a lockfile to work around NixOS/nix#6541 (and because it's a good idea anyway). Also use flake-utils, and restrict ourselves to the five platforms supported by nixpkgs. Otherwise, the IFD for nmd fails on weird platforms. This fixes `nix flake check`. Remove the redundant `apps` output, see nix-community#2442 (comment)
* Add flake.lock and clean up flake.nix Add a lockfile to work around NixOS/nix#6541 (and because it's a good idea anyway). Also use flake-utils, and restrict ourselves to the five platforms supported by nixpkgs. Otherwise, the IFD for nmd fails on weird platforms. This fixes `nix flake check`. Remove the redundant `apps` output, see #2442 (comment) * nixos,nix-darwin: factor out into a common module * nixos,nix-darwin: make `home-managers.users` shallowly visible Make sure the option is included in the NixOS/nix-darwin manual (but the HM submodule options aren't). Also add a static description to the HM submodule type so that we don't need to evaluate the submodules just to build the option manual. This makes nixos-search able to index the home-manager flake. Also clean up some TODOs. * flake: add nmd and nmt This avoids having to use `pkgs.fetchFromGitLab` in an IFD, which causes issues when indexing packages with nixos-search because `pkgs` is instantiated with every platform.
* Add flake.lock and clean up flake.nix Add a lockfile to work around NixOS/nix#6541 (and because it's a good idea anyway). Also use flake-utils, and restrict ourselves to the five platforms supported by nixpkgs. Otherwise, the IFD for nmd fails on weird platforms. This fixes `nix flake check`. Remove the redundant `apps` output, see nix-community#2442 (comment) * nixos,nix-darwin: factor out into a common module * nixos,nix-darwin: make `home-managers.users` shallowly visible Make sure the option is included in the NixOS/nix-darwin manual (but the HM submodule options aren't). Also add a static description to the HM submodule type so that we don't need to evaluate the submodules just to build the option manual. This makes nixos-search able to index the home-manager flake. Also clean up some TODOs. * flake: add nmd and nmt This avoids having to use `pkgs.fetchFromGitLab` in an IFD, which causes issues when indexing packages with nixos-search because `pkgs` is instantiated with every platform.
* Add flake.lock and clean up flake.nix Add a lockfile to work around NixOS/nix#6541 (and because it's a good idea anyway). Also use flake-utils, and restrict ourselves to the five platforms supported by nixpkgs. Otherwise, the IFD for nmd fails on weird platforms. This fixes `nix flake check`. Remove the redundant `apps` output, see nix-community#2442 (comment) * nixos,nix-darwin: factor out into a common module * nixos,nix-darwin: make `home-managers.users` shallowly visible Make sure the option is included in the NixOS/nix-darwin manual (but the HM submodule options aren't). Also add a static description to the HM submodule type so that we don't need to evaluate the submodules just to build the option manual. This makes nixos-search able to index the home-manager flake. Also clean up some TODOs. * flake: add nmd and nmt This avoids having to use `pkgs.fetchFromGitLab` in an IFD, which causes issues when indexing packages with nixos-search because `pkgs` is instantiated with every platform.
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