How to disable cuda and nvidia on amd laptop

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I have a laptop with only amd cpu and amd gpu and nixos-rebuild just failed with the following:

       error: Package ‘cuda12.8-cuda_nvcc-12.8.93’ in /nix/store/df02fsc6x7f1gjhrh2zr0dmpfq5jqwnf-nixos/nixos/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/packages/cuda_nvcc.nix:175 has an unfree license (‘CUDA EULA’), refusing to evaluate.

I have nothing related to cuda or nvidia in my configuration.nix (I only use configuration.nix and not home-manager or similar trash).
hardware.nvidia.package = null; had no effect, hardware.nvidia.enable is no longer an option, and hardware.nvidia.enabled is apparently read-only despite being recognized as an option in configuration.nix and being listed in NixOS Search.

How do I disable cuda and nvidia - the >20 lines of debug info in nixos-rebuild just say to allow unfree packages but I don’t want to let these nvidia packages I’ve never needed back into my build.

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In theory this should only happen if you explicitly enable cudaSupport. You must have somehow accidentally done that, though it’s hard to imagine how. From a cursory grep through nixpkgs there are no un-gated uses of cuda, though I might have missed one.

Could you share your config so I don’t have to use my imagination?

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There was an unfortunate regression where CUDA packages where inadvertently leaked into Firefox via onnxruntime. This has been fixed on master and should be on nixos-unstable tomorrow.

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