Configuring a module alias for home-manager?

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Hello, I would like to define a shortcut option name for my home-manager configuration, to make things nicer when splitting my system configuration into multiple nix files.

I have tried this:

{ config, lib, pkgs, ...}: {
  imports = [
    <home-manager/nixos>
    (pkgs.lib.mkAliasOptionModule ["home-manager" "users" "rodney"] ["my"])
    # bug: use lib not pkgs.lib
  ];

  home-manager = {
    useGlobalPkgs = true; # use nixpkgs from nixos
    useUserPackages = true; # install to /etc/profiles
  };

  my.programs.home-manager.enable = true;
  my.home.file."test".text = "works\n";
}

But I get:

error: infinite recursion encountered

or sometimes

error: The option `home-manager.users' in `/home/rodney/ops/home-manager/nixos' is a prefix of options in `/home/rodney/ops/laptop/modules/common/enable-home-manager.nix'.

depending on where I put the alias and imports.

Does anyone know how to do this?

2

Doh, just after posting, I realised that the infinite recursion was due to using pkgs.lib instead of lib. So after fixing that, now I’m back to the second error about the option home-manager.users being a prefix.

3

can you show more of the error? It looks like it might be cut off.

edit
Nevermind, after trying this on my end, the errror seems to be extremely unhelpful anyhow :laughing:

second edit
@rvl, you have the arguments backward. Simply switch them around and it should work. Of course, after looking at the original parameters, I don’t blame you, as their naming is fairly unintuitive.

4

Aha, that’s it - thanks @nrdxp.