Home-Manager as module help

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Hi everyone, I’m trying to setup home-manger as a module in my flake.

I am getting the following error while trying to rebuild and I’m a bit lost:

       error: A definition for option `home-manager.users.modules' is not of type `Home Manager module'. Definition values:
       - In `/nix/store/ws4gp4ahcmjdbyf9p1rlpmw42pzgziak-source/hosts/homebase/home-manager.nix':
           [
             /nix/store/ws4gp4ahcmjdbyf9p1rlpmw42pzgziak-source/hosts/homebase/home.nix
             /nix/store/ws4gp4ahcmjdbyf9p1rlpmw42pzgziak-source/homeManagerModules
           ]

My current directory structure is as follows:

 ~/nixosConfig   master ~ •  ➜  tree .
.
├── flake.lock
├── flake.nix
├── homeManagerModules
│   ├── alacritty.nix
│   ├── default.nix
│   ├── desktop.nix
│   ├── direnv.nix
│   ├── nixpkgs.nix
│   ├── starship.nix
│   ├── tmux.nix
│   └── zsh.nix
├── hosts
│   └── homebase
│       ├── bluetooth.nix
│       ├── configuration.nix
│       ├── hardware-configuration.nix
│       ├── home-manager.nix
│       ├── home.nix
│       └── nvidia.nix

My flake.nix has the following relevant lines:

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, ... }@inputs : {
      nixosConfigurations.nixos = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
          specialArgs = { inherit inputs; };
          modules = [
              ./hosts/homebase/configuration.nix
              ./nixosModules
          ];
      };
      homeManagerModules.default = ./homeManagerModules;
  };

My configuration.nix imports home-manager.nix which has the following contents:

{inputs, ...}:
let user = "<my_username>";
in
{
    home-manager = {
        extraSpecialArgs = { inherit inputs; };
        users = {
            "${user}" = import ./home.nix;
            modules = [
                ./home.nix
                inputs.self.outputs.homeManagerModules.default
            ];
        };
    };
}

And finally my home.nix is as follows:

{ config, pkgs, ... }@inputs:
 in
{
    imports = inputs.self.outputs.homeManagerModules.default;
    # Home Manager needs a bit of information about you and the paths it should
    # manage.
    home.username = "<my_username>";
    home.homeDirectory = "/home/<my_username>";

    # This value determines the Home Manager release that your configuration is
    # compatible with. This helps avoid breakage when a new Home Manager release
    # introduces backwards incompatible changes.
    #
    # You should not change this value, even if you update Home Manager. If you do
    # want to update the value, then make sure to first check the Home Manager
    # release notes.
    home.stateVersion = "24.05"; # Please read the comment before changing.

    ....

and homeManagerModules/default.nix:

{lib, ...}:
{
    imports = [
        ./nixpkgs.nix
        ./alacritty.nix
        ./zsh.nix
        ./starship.nix
        ./tmux.nix
        ./direnv.nix
        ./desktop.nix
    ];
}

What on earth could I be doing wrong here aha

2

You are telling HM to manage the user modules, I think you actually want home-manager.sharedModules, not home-manager.users.modules.

Or if the modules are not meant to be shared across all users, put them into the imports list of the user who is supposed to use them.

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3

Are you saying something like this?

{inputs, ...}:
let user = "<my_username>";
in
{
    home-manager = {
        extraSpecialArgs = { inherit inputs; };
        users = {
            # "${user}" = import ./home.nix;
            "${user}" = {
                imports = [
                    ./home.nix
                    inputs.self.outputs.homeManagerModules.default
                ];
            };
        };
    };
}