Understanding Flakes about digga HOT 4 CLOSED

Is there a way to get the home-manager command back?

I tried to do the following:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/nixos-unstable";
    nixpkgs-stable = {
      url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-20.03";
      flake = false;
    };
    home.url = github:rycee/home-manager/bqv-flakes;
    nur.url = github:nix-community/NUR;
  };

  outputs = { nixpkgs, nix, self, ... }@inputs: {
    nixosConfigurations.nixos = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      system = "x86_64-linux";
      modules = [
        (import ./configuration.nix)
        inputs.home.nixosModules.home-manager
      ];
      specialArgs = { inherit inputs; };
    };
    legacyPackages.x86_64-linux = self.nixosConfigurations.nixos.pkgs;
  };
}

Then I added home-manager.users.suhr.programs.home-manager.enable = true; to the system configuration.

nixos-rebuild switch ran without problems. But there's no home-manager at the user side.

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nixos-rebuild switch ran without problems. But there's no home-manager at the user side.

It seems that this is intended behaviour from home-manager. See the setting for home-manager.users.<name?>.programs.home-manager at <home-manager/modules/programs/home-manager.nix>. This checks not only that home-manager is enabled but also that submoduleSupport is disabled (and in this case it's not). This seems to come from the first ever commit with module support (nix-community/home-manager@1bc59f7).

As far as I understand (and take this with a grain of salt), you should probably just manage the home-manager generations as part of the whole system generations, and therefore there should be no need to use the home-manager CLI tool.

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Yeah, I figured out that home-manager does not support cli with flakes. I use a flake to manage user packages now. It would be nice to have something to manage some configuration as well though.

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I'm going to close this as it really isn't related to the project. However, I am hoping to update the documentation to be a bit more thorough in the near future.

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