How to pass specialArgs to imports?

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That’s not really how you do it, the arguments to the modules are automatically supplied when you add them to imports, you are not supposed to do this yourself. What you are doing will also break down if you don’t list all required arguments for every dependent module down the import tree in the parent modules, so it really doesn’t scale.

How I’d do this (to the extent that I understood what you’re trying to do):

In suites.nix:

# No need to specify the args here if they are not used in this module.
# You could even leave of this first line entirely.
{ ... }:

{
  imports = [
    ./suites/base.nix
    ./suites/devel.nix
  ];
}

And then either of the other two modules, can still take any module arguments that you want:

# suites/base.nix
{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:

{
  # You can use config, pkgs, and lib here
}

In your flake, you can then simply do this:

myHost = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
  system = "x86_64-linux";
  modules = [ ./suites.nix ];
};

The whole point of the module system is to manage how to call and merge the modules, so that you don’t need to do this manually, which would quickly become a huge pain.

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