home-manager is severly out of date / unmaintained in nixpkgs #197907
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Resolved for now, but it'd be nice to have someone dedicated to keeping it somewhat up to date in nixpkgs. |
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Instead of waiting for nixpkgs to [update home-manager], we can track the upstream repository directly (using master as a channel seems to be common practice) and overlay the up to date source into our nixpkgs instance. For //users/tazjin/home and //users/wpcarro/nixos/marcus, we need to set `home.stateVersion`, since the default value for this option was removed some time this summer. [update home-manager]: NixOS/nixpkgs#197907 Change-Id: I8c153fb7d3b55a4040652a5d619761b640119105 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7098 Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su> Reviewed-by: wpcarro <wpcarro@gmail.com> Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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Since home-manager is quite outdated in nixpkgs, it is currently affected by nix-community/home-manager#3342, meaning building a home-manager switch will plainly not work currently if the home-manager modules are taken from nixpkgs (by importing
pkgs.home-manager.src + "/nixos").We should either make an effort to keep home-manager up to date or remove it altogether. The lack of home-manager updates in nixpkgs seems to indicate to me that most people either have a dedicated
home-managerchannel or use flakes to get home-manager.I don't use home-manager myself, so it'd be great if an actual home-manager user could step up for this.
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