How to override one home-manager setting with an overlay

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Hello. I noticed one of the home-manager modules has an incorrect config option. Can I use an overlay to fix it? I tried this:

  nixpkgs.overlays = [
    (self: super: {
      hm-modules.programs.navi = super.hm-modules.programs.navi.override {
        configDir = self.config.xdg.configHome;
      };
    })
  ];

But I see an error in the console saying that says: This will soon not be possible. Please remove all nixpkgsoptions when usinghome-manager.useGlobalPkgs.

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Overlays are for packages, not modules. There’s also no option configDir in this module.

You can copy the module, add the original module path to disabledModules, and add your new module to imports.

But I don’t see the benefit to set it to the value it already has? (Unless you’re on darwin)

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This is the workaround I came up with, it is working:

#set navi settings to the same value passed to the module
    navi = {
      enable = true;
      enableZshIntegration = true;
      enableBashIntegration = true;
      settings = navi-settings;
    };
  };
  # My temporal fix until https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/6559
  home.file."${config.xdg.configHome}/navi/config.yaml".source =
    (yamlFormat.generate "navi-config" navi-settings);

So, I am basically manually pointing to the same file the module is generating but at the desired path.

I am indeed on darwin

How do I add the original path to disabled modules?