Tracking issue for improving uninstalling

[emilazy]

• Needs to clean up /run, esp. after Install nix-darwin on flake-based systems #687
• Didn't delete /Applications/Nix Apps
• Should restore pre-nix-darwin configuration like nix.conf, bashrc and zshrc
• Change user shells that point to /run/current-system
• Flake uninstall procedure needs documenting in README
• Update documentation to try running the uninstaller from $PATH
• Run checks after user runs uninstaller and direct them to report issues if the uninstaller failed
• Check that /etc configuration got restored correctly
• Check that no user shells point to /run/*
• Check that run is not mentioned in /etc/synthetic.conf
• Check that the only LaunchDaemons for org.nixos are org.nixos.nix-daemon and org.nixos.darwin-store

[Enzime]

I've fixed /Applications/Nix Apps not getting deleted in #687.

As opposed to the installer, I think uninstalling a flake-based system can be handled by the darwin-uninstaller, need to investigate further into any additional flake-specific logic that needs to be added.

[emilazy]

I've fixed /Applications/Nix Apps not getting deleted in #687.

That's what confuses me: I was using that version (nix run github:Enzime/...).

[Enzime]

I believe the uninstaller is not unloading launchd daemons before deleting the files, need to check this further.

[zdcthomas]

I thought I'd call this out here too, there's a small bootstrapping issue with the uninstaller being a derivation that has to be built to be run. If someone has any issues actually running nix, and they want to uninstall nix-darwin to get back to a clean state, they can't easily do that right now, since the docs recommend running from the derivation

[Enzime]

Some progress was made on this as of #806 as the uninstaller is now installed by default on all nix-darwin systems, accessible through darwin-uninstaller, so it no longer needs to be built, however I believe the uninstaller still depends on Nix.

The documentation should probably be updated to recommend running the uninstaller from $PATH

[Enzime]

Another thing to consider is what we want to do with users and groups created or managed by nix-darwin