Why not use home-manager module within nixosConfiguration? Something like below:
nixosConfigurations = {
hostName = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
system = "x86_64-linux";
modules = [
./configuration.nix
home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager
{
home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true;
home-manager.useUserPackages = true;
home-manager.users = {
user = import ./home.nix;
root = import ./root-home.nix;
};
}
];
};