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 Matt Sturgeon | * internal doesn't affect who can use an option. It only affects whether it is documented. It's effectively the same thing as visible = "shallow". | 13:05:04 |
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 bake.monorail | is there anything more specific than types.str I can use for a version number that I will later compare with lib.versionAtLeast? | 20:39:57 |
| Matt Sturgeon | In string types we have strMatching, however that expects a regex not a predicate function.
The general solution is addCheck (see extending types), however the examples there don't show that you typically also want to extend/override the type's description. | 20:46:28 |
| bake.monorail | yeah, I went with strMatching, but I was hoping to have a type matching exactly what versionAtLeast would accept, but I guess there's no such a thing | 20:50:21 |
| bake.monorail | versionAtLeast under the hood uses builtins.compareVersions, which seems to accept anything, probably it has a last-resort method comparison that's just lexicographic comparison | 20:53:24 |
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 nbp | I would say, at the very least types are part of the documentation, if you can give a more descriptive name even if there is no additional check, this might be worth it. (i-e. just aliasing the name my motivate someone else to add a check function later) | 11:28:54 |
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| mr-qubo | I recently stumbled upon similar issue when working on home-manager. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/is-it-possible-to-define-systemd-services-in-a-submodule/39538/5
The idea is that enabling https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.xhtml#opt-programs.bash.enableCompletion should set environment.pathsToLink = [ "/share/bash-completion" ];.
I think that module system is missing an option to pass config options recursively up to all ancestors.
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| mr-qubo | My idea is that nixos config could have a property extraNixosChildConfig and in home-manager bash module I could set _recurseAncestors = { extraNixosChildConfig = { environment.pathsToLink = [ ... ]; }; }. | 15:07:22 |
| mr-qubo | wdyt? | 15:07:26 |
| mr-qubo | * My idea is that nixos config could have a property extraNixosChildConfig that gets merged with the rest of the config and in home-manager bash module I could set _recurseAncestors = { extraNixosChildConfig = { environment.pathsToLink = [ ... ]; }; }. | 15:07:44 |
| mr-qubo | * My idea is that nixos config could pick up extraNixosChildConfig from childs and merge it with the rest of the config and in home-manager bash module I could set _recurseAncestors = { extraNixosChildConfig = { environment.pathsToLink = [ ... ]; }; }. | 15:08:21 |
 infinisil | Not sure about that recursive thing, that doesn't seem necessary, but yeah if there's something missing in the NixOS module for home-manager, that could be added | 15:34:09 |
| infinisil | Sounds like an issue for the home-manager repo | 15:34:16 |
| mr-qubo | Yeah, we could add it just for home-manager. But is seems like the issue is quite generic. See also https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/152785. | 15:51:50 |
| infinisil | Hmm yeah fair. I don't have the capacity to think a lot about this right now, it's a very intricate topic to wrap ones head around | 15:56:55 |
| mr-qubo | Yeah, I just wanted to bring the topic, maybe someone has some interesting thoughts. | 16:05:23 |
