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builtins.unsafeGetAttrPos

:O :O :O

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17 Jan 2026
@majiir:matrix.orgMajiir Paktu I can set internal on an option to make it usable only in nixpkgs. Is there any mechanism to do the opposite, where an option is unusable in-tree but still available to users? The use case is for an option that should be deprecated, but where the replacement is not yet stable enough to produce a warning and steer users toward it. But also, the replacement is widely used within nixpkgs already. 02:25:32
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@mattsturg:matrix.orgMatt Sturgeon internal doesn't not affect who can use an option. It only affects whether it is documented. It's effectively the same thing as visible = "shallow". 12:30:52
@mattsturg:matrix.orgMatt 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:matrix.orgbake.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
@mattsturg:matrix.orgMatt 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:matrix.orgbake.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:matrix.orgbake.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:mozilla.orgnbpI 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:matrix.orgmr-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.

15:06:01
@mr-qubo:matrix.orgmr-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:matrix.orgmr-qubowdyt?15:07:26
@mr-qubo:matrix.orgmr-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

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