Where does nixos-rebuild look for configuration.nix?

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I want to keep my configuration.nix in a directory in my home directory, but how can I tell nixos-rebuild where to find it and under what name?

Is this something I set with an environment variable?

I guess that’s the cleanest way, instead of specifying the filename on each invocation of nixos-rebuild?

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You can set nixos-config via the nix path or NIXOS_CONFIG via environment to point at the configuration

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You can also make /etc/nixos/configuration.nix a symbolic link to /home/user/whatever/configuration.nix. Nix will follow symbolic links and resolve relative imports correctly, so imports = [ ./mymodule.nix ] will load /home/user/whatever/mymodule.nix.

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