| 29 Jul 2021 |
 elonsroadster | @papojari You cant use current-system in flakes | 18:53:55 |
 papojari | In reply to @elonsroadster:matrix.org
@papojari You cant use current-system in flakes then how am I supposed to rebuild my home-manager configuration | 18:55:34 |
| papojari | I followed Wil Taylor's tutorial on how to move your system into a flake? | 18:56:10 |
| papojari | * I followed Wil Taylor's tutorial on how to move your system into a flake | 18:56:14 |
| elonsroadster | I use home-manager with flakes without much issue | 18:56:18 |
| elonsroadster | you can do: imports = [
home-manager.nixosModule
]; | 18:57:24 |
|  Ambroisie left the room. | 19:00:38 |
| papojari | In reply to @elonsroadster:matrix.org
you can do: imports = [
home-manager.nixosModule
]; where am I supposed to put this | 19:00:59 |
| 30 Jul 2021 |
 polykernel | are let statements not allowed at the toplevel for flakes, for instance
let
# etc
in
{
| 02:25:37 |
| polykernel | * are let statements not allowed at the toplevel for flakes, for instance
let
# etc
in
{
# etc
}
| 02:25:48 |
| polykernel | * are let statements not allowed at the toplevel for flakes, for instance
let
# etc
in
{
# etc
}
| 02:25:59 |
| polykernel | * are let statements not allowed at the toplevel for flakes, for instance
let
# etc
in
{
inputs = {
# etc
};
outputs = { self, ... }: {
# etc
};
}
| 02:35:30 |
 tomberek | polykernel: no, the top-level of flakes are restricted, as are some other constructs that would cause them to be more difficult to evaluate/cache | 02:55:40 |
| tomberek | * polykernel: no, the top-level of flakes are restricted, as are some other constructs that would cause them to be more difficult to evaluate/cache (Refer: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3966#issuecomment-682497697 ) | 03:04:10 |
| polykernel | thanks, I should of known this. I recall reading that computation is forbidden on metadata attributes(https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4945#issuecomment-868572873), but it didn't occur to me at least somehow, it included the top level as well. | 03:12:27 |
| polykernel | * thanks, I should of known this. I recall reading that computation is forbidden for metadata attributes(https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4945#issuecomment-868572873), but it didn't occur to me at least somehow, it included the top level as well. | 03:12:38 |
| polykernel | * thanks, I should of known this. I recall reading that computation is forbidden for metadata attributes(https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4945#issuecomment-868572873), but it somehow didn't occur to me it included the top level as well. | 03:12:55 |
| polykernel | so due to the evaluation constraint of flakes, if I want to do computation for inputs (i.e, dynamically generate inputs),I would have to write a generator for flake.nix using another nix expression? | 03:17:10 |
| tomberek | yes, or generate the file in some other way, then evaluate the flake once it is no longer dynamic | 03:17:52 |
| polykernel | I see, thanks for the help | 03:20:13 |
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| 31 Jul 2021 |
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| 1 Aug 2021 |
| polykernel | is there a way to call a flake within a nix expression, would I have to use builtins.getFlake? | 22:06:22 |
| elonsroadster | So I think I want to do something that would generally be regarded as a bad idea. I get that flakes are supposed to be as pure as possible, but I really want to be able to know what directory the flake is defined in, because I want to be able to talk about paths relative to that flake. The reason I want to do this is that I want to add to certain paths in my dotfiles to the global path environment variable. I realize that the nixy way to do this would be to actually add all of the relevant paths/scripts to the nix store and add them that way, but I don't want to have to explicitly rebuild to get new versions of all the scripts every time they are changed. | 22:17:08 |
| 2 Aug 2021 |
 colemickens 🏳️🌈 | I mean, you can't...? | 00:17:30 |
| elonsroadster | In reply to @colemickens:matrix.org
I mean, you can't...? even with --impure? Is there a way you can pass an argument to a flake | 02:30:12 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | I guess you could do nix build --expr and pass it an expression where you're providing the path of where the scripts are. | 04:12:25 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | Not sure that's any better than just ... setting it via convention and then hard-coding it. Either way you're making an un-enforceable assumption. | 04:12:51 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | Right? If you build that into the toplevel, nothing stops you from just... not cloning the scripts there and forgetting and putting it in the wrong place. | 04:13:56 |
| elonsroadster | couldn't i do something like builtins getEnv if I use --impure | 07:13:31 |
