What's in my flake?

You can see the full details with nix flake show. As a helpful summary, here’s what my flake should contain sorting from the most interesting and helpful outputs to the most boring and unnecessary.

  • packages contains my custom packages.

  • images contains the hosts as a build output generated from nixos-generators.

  • overlays contains the overlay for extending nixpkgs with my packages. If you want to use my packages alongside the nixpkgs attribute then this is what you’re looking for.

  • homeModules are where my custom home-manager modules to be exported. [1]

  • nixosModules are composed from NixOS modules defined in ./modules/nixos. It can be used as additional modules for your own NixOS config in case you want to use mine for whatever reason. There are some niceties in there.

    A few examples include:

    • A NixOS module for Pop launcher plugins and scripts.

    • Several service modules for archiving with yt-dlp, gallery-dl, and ArchiveBox.

    • My themes which contain full desktop environments which is nice for quickly initializing a NixOS configuration.

  • devShells from my custom environments. Similar to homeConfigurations, you can easily use it outside of NixOS.

  • homeConfigurations contains my various home-manager configurations from ./users/home-manager/. The neat thing about it is you can easily install it in a non-NixOS Linux distro.

  • deploy are nodes to be deployed by deploy-rs. It’s nice and currently not all of the nodes are publicly committed which is less useful but it’ll be someday.

  • nixosConfigurations which is where you can install my various NixOS configurations directly (e.g., nixos-install --flake github:foo-dogsquared/nixos-config#HOST). This mainly uses the hosts configuration.

  • templates which contains my templates. Though, these are just templates mostly for my own purposes so it is not as useful as the other outputs.

  • hydraJobs contains Hydra build jobs where it is primarily used for my test Hydra instance.

  • lib is defined from my custom library. It mainly assumes it is to be included in nixpkgs standard library (i.e., import ./lib { lib = inputs.nixpkgs.lib; }). It’s another unnecessary export but it’s there.

  • formatter is the preferred formatter to be used for my Nix files. Nothing special here.

  • checks contains checks for several outputs and are mainly for internal purposes. There’s no use for anyone else, really. :(

1. This is more useful than my NixOS modules.