The product of a chat with @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
2 points
It’s pretty easy for home-manager use, but still really useful. You can:
- choose which packages to install from stable and which from unstable
- add packages from repos that have flake.nix in them
- correctly match nix and home-manager versions, and always update them at the same time
- allow-unfree without nixpkgs conf, so 1 less directory required in .config (if they accepted the “experimental” features it’d be down to 1)
Here’s an example:
flake.nix
{
description = "home flake";
inputs = {
nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager/master";
home-manager.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
nixpkgs-stable.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-23.11";
# nixgl.url = "github:guibou/nixGL";
};
outputs =
{
self,
nixpkgs,
nixpkgs-stable,
home-manager,
# nixgl,
...
}@inputs:
let
system = "x86_64-linux";
pkgs = import nixpkgs {
system = system;
config = {
allowUnfree = true;
};
};
pkgsStable = import nixpkgs-stable {
system = system;
config = {
allowUnfree = true;
};
};
in
{
homeConfigurations = {
shareni = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
inherit pkgs;
modules = [ ./home.nix ];
extraSpecialArgs = {
inherit inputs;
inherit system;
kmonad = pkgsStable.kmonad;
};
};
};
};
}
1 point
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The ‘code’ tag here does not respect newlines, I tried to fix it but this is the best I could do:
`{ description = “home flake”;
inputs = { nixpkgs.url = “github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable”;
home-manager.url = “github:nix-community/home-manager/master”;
home-manager.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = “nixpkgs”;
nixpkgs-stable.url = “github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-23.11”;
# nixgl.url = “github:guibou/nixGL”;
};
outputs = {
self,
nixpkgs,
nixpkgs-stable,
home-manager,
# nixgl,
…
}
@inputs:
let
system = “x86_64-linux”;
pkgs = import nixpkgs {
system = system;
config = {
allowUnfree = true;
};
};
pkgsStable = import nixpkgs-stable {
system = system;
config = {
allowUnfree = true;
};
};
in {
homeConfigurations = {
shareni = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
inherit pkgs;
modules = [ ./home.nix ];
extraSpecialArgs = {
inherit inputs;
inherit system;
kmonad = pkgsStable.kmonad;
};
};
};
};
}`
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