I'm trying to do something but I need some help.
I've added a vars.nix file at the root of my dir with some variables that I use in many places:

{
  username = "sweenu";
  terminal = "alacritty";
}

And I have added vars = import ./vars.nix in my flake.nix and it's perfect, I can use my vars as simply as self.vars.username.
But I'm trying to improve this with:

{ pkgs }:
{
  username = "sweenu";
  terminal = "alacritty";
  terminalBin = "${pkgs.alacritty}/bin/alacritty";
}

But I have no clue how I could pass that pkgs argument though :/
I have tried vars = import ./vars.nix { pkgs = nixos; }; and vars = import ./vars.nix { pkgs = inputs.nixos; }; but it seems that the nixos variable isn't pointing to nixpkgs because it can't find alacritty.
Is there a way to do what I'm looking to do?

I'm trying to do something but I need some help.
I've added a vars.nix file at the root of my dir with some variables that I use in many places:

{
  username = "sweenu";
  terminal = "alacritty";
}

And I have added vars = import ./vars.nix in my flake.nix and it's perfect, I can use my vars as simply as self.vars.username.
But I'm trying to improve this with:

{ pkgs }:
{
  username = "sweenu";
  terminal = "alacritty";
  terminalBin = "${pkgs.alacritty}/bin/alacritty";
}

But I have no clue how I could pass that pkgs argument though :/
I have tried vars = import ./vars.nix { pkgs = nixos; }; and vars = import ./vars.nix { pkgs = inputs.nixos; }; but it seems that the nixos variable isn't pointing to nixpkgs because it can't find alacritty.
Is there a way to do what I'm looking to do?

You should create a module for this:

In modules/vars.nix

{ pkgs, lib, ... }:
with lib;
{
  options = {
    username = mkOption { type = types.str; };
    terminalBin = mkOption { type = types.package; };
  };
  config = {
    username = "sweenu";
    terminalBin = "${pkgs.alacritty}/bin/alacritty";
  };
}

In reply to @Sweenu:matrix.org

I'm trying to do something but I need some help.
I've added a vars.nix file at the root of my dir with some variables that I use in many places:

{
  username = "sweenu";
  terminal = "alacritty";
}

And I have added vars = import ./vars.nix in my flake.nix and it's perfect, I can use my vars as simply as self.vars.username.
But I'm trying to improve this with:

{ pkgs }:
{
  username = "sweenu";
  terminal = "alacritty";
  terminalBin = "${pkgs.alacritty}/bin/alacritty";
}

But I have no clue how I could pass that pkgs argument though :/
I have tried vars = import ./vars.nix { pkgs = nixos; }; and vars = import ./vars.nix { pkgs = inputs.nixos; }; but it seems that the nixos variable isn't pointing to nixpkgs because it can't find alacritty.
Is there a way to do what I'm looking to do?

In reply to@worldofgeese:one.ems.host

I'm a little confused about getting started and could use a little guidance.

So I've read through the first few pages of documentation and started to split out my configuration.nix into a users/worldofgeese/default.nix for user stuff, filesystem stuff into a hosts/endless-summer.nix and filled out the root user with a hashed password and pubkey.

So I'm ready to go, right? Here's where I get confused: the install instructions indicate I should build an ISO from the bootstrap.nix but that won't source a lot of my personalizations. Do I wait on those until after I've built and booted a minimal ISO?