treewide: disable programs.nix-index.enable option by default

[trueNAHO]

This patchset does some cleanup and disables the programs.nix-index.enable option by default for the following reason:

treewide: disable programs.nix-index.enable option by default

Disable the programs.nix-index.enable option by default to align with
Nix conventions and streamline configuration sharing.

This avoids needing to remember to disable this module across all
configurations and avoids highly discouraged conditional imports that
often lead to infinite recursions [1].

[...]

[1]: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/conditional-module-imports/34863/2

---

The programs.nix-index.enable option was first introduced in commit 75e347f ("Allow command-not-found integration with home-manager.") and set to true:

nix-index-database/home-manager-module.nix

Line 6 in 75e347f

enable = lib.mkDefault true;

To this day, programs.nix-index.enable is still set to true:

nix-index-database/nix/shared.nix

Line 6 in f1e477a

config.programs.nix-index.enable = lib.mkDefault true;

---

NAHO (5):
  tests: remove default option declaration
  readme: remove trailing whitespaces
  treewide: disable programs.nix-index.enable option by default
  readme: improve programs.nix-index-database.comma.enable description
  readme: subjectively improve examples

 README.md      | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 nix/shared.nix |  2 --
 tests.nix      |  6 ++--
 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

[r-vdp]

Should we maybe start by printing a warning if the option is set to true by this module, to give people the chance to update their configs?

[trueNAHO]

Should we maybe start by printing a warning if the option is set to true by this module, to give people the chance to update their configs?

What about doing the opposite? If programs.nix-index.enable == false, then we emit a warning to inform users that this module may have been unbeknownst disabled. This warning should be removed after some time, like after the release of nixos-25.12.

[r-vdp]

Should we maybe start by printing a warning if the option is set to true by this module, to give people the chance to update their configs?

What about doing the opposite? If programs.nix-index.enable == false, then we emit a warning to inform users that this module may have been unbeknownst disabled. This warning should be removed after some time, like after the release of nixos-25.12.

But that warning would be hard to avoid in case you actually conditionally enable the module. I think it should be possible to not have any warnings to avoid warning fatigue.

[trueNAHO]

What about doing the opposite? If programs.nix-index.enable == false, then we emit a warning to inform users that this module may have been unbeknownst disabled. This warning should be removed after some time, like after the release of nixos-25.12.

But that warning would be hard to avoid in case you actually conditionally enable the module. I think it should be possible to not have any warnings to avoid warning fatigue.

This should be resolved by commit shared: add programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option.

For reference, I am using this PR as follows:

commit ebbf6a3cb5255e8717ee00650e382de7971765e1
Author: NAHO <90870942+trueNAHO@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   2024-12-12 15:40:47 +0100

    nix-index: init
    
    Initialize the nix-index module with pre-generated databases and comma
    [1] support by leveraging the nix-index-database [3] wrapper of
    nix-index [2].
    
    This changes the behaviour of the fish_command_not_found function.
    
    [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/comma
    [2]: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index
    [3]: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index-database

diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
index 9df4f840..41d49c60 100644
--- a/flake.lock
+++ b/flake.lock
@@ -355,6 +355,27 @@
         "type": "github"
       }
     },
+    "nix-index-database_2": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "nixpkgs": [
+          "nixpkgs"
+        ]
+      },
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1734097052,
+        "narHash": "sha256-FKXpL6/RWwKo3B5AxqUeYOddxXuvuzMAAP6ffg253no=",
+        "owner": "trueNAHO",
+        "repo": "nix-index-database",
+        "rev": "fd1dc4242b789bd6e22309c73a97c4119819eae7",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "trueNAHO",
+        "ref": "treewide-disable-programs-nix-index-enable-option-by-default",
+        "repo": "nix-index-database",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
     "nixpkgs": {
       "locked": {
         "lastModified": 1733392399,
@@ -470,6 +491,7 @@
         "home-manager": "home-manager",
         "logo": "logo",
         "nix-alien": "nix-alien",
+        "nix-index-database": "nix-index-database_2",
         "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs_3",
         "nixvim": "nixvim",
         "os": "os",
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 9c751904..969d25d0 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -84,6 +84,14 @@
       url = "github:thiagokokada/nix-alien";
     };
 
+    # TODO: Replace this fork with upstream once [1] is merged.
+    #
+    # [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index-database/pull/132
+    nix-index-database = {
+      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
+      url = "github:trueNAHO/nix-index-database/treewide-disable-programs-nix-index-enable-option-by-default";
+    };
+
     nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
 
     nixvim = {
diff --git a/home_configurations/private/full/default.nix b/home_configurations/private/full/default.nix
index 12c27f01..9b799cda 100644
--- a/home_configurations/private/full/default.nix
+++ b/home_configurations/private/full/default.nix
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ lib.dotfiles.homeManagerConfiguration.homeManagerConfiguration
             full = true;
           };
 
+          nix-index.enable = true;
           nix-your-shell.enable = true;
           password-store.enable = true;
           qutebrowser.enable = true;
diff --git a/home_configurations/private/full/imports.nix b/home_configurations/private/full/imports.nix
index 9ac923bd..2e34e554 100644
--- a/home_configurations/private/full/imports.nix
+++ b/home_configurations/private/full/imports.nix
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@
     ../../../modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/lazygit
     ../../../modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/man
     ../../../modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/mpv
+    ../../../modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/nix-index
     ../../../modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/nix-your-shell
     ../../../modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/password-store
     ../../../modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/qutebrowser
diff --git a/modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/fish/default.nix b/modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/fish/default.nix
index da99254f..aebe8df3 100644
--- a/modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/fish/default.nix
+++ b/modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/fish/default.nix
@@ -90,15 +90,6 @@
                 description = "Output parent directory multiple times";
               };
 
-              fish_command_not_found = {
-                body =
-                  validateFunctionArguments
-                  "fish_command_not_found"
-                  "nix run nixpkgs#$argv[1] -- $argv[2..]";
-
-                description = "What to do when a command wasn't found";
-              };
-
               fish_mode_prompt = fishModePrompt "";
 
               fish_greeting = {
diff --git a/modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/nix-index/default.nix b/modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/nix-index/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..da9f05f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/inputs/home-manager/programs/nix-index/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{
+  config,
+  inputs,
+  lib,
+  ...
+}: {
+  imports = [inputs.nix-index-database.hmModules.nix-index];
+
+  options.dotfiles.inputs.home-manager.programs.nix-index.enable =
+    lib.dotfiles.mkEnableOption;
+
+  config = lib.mkMerge [
+    {
+      programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange = true;
+    }
+
+    (
+      lib.mkIf
+      config.dotfiles.inputs.home-manager.programs.nix-index.enable
+      {
+        programs = {
+          nix-index-database.comma.enable = true;
+          nix-index.enable = true;
+        };
+      }
+    )
+  ];
+}

[trueNAHO]

Changelog

v2: 928ab2e

• Rename commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option to shared: add programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option

v1: fd1dc42

• Add commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option, allowing end-users to explicitly acknowledge and disable the breaking change warning
• Add more changes to commit readme: subjectively improve examples
• Reorder commits such that commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option and treewide: disable programs.nix-index.enable option by default are the last two commits
• Add Link: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index-database/pull/132 tag to every commit

v0: 4b18f07

[Mic92]

@r-vdp can you have a look again?

[r-vdp]

I'll try to have a look at it tomorrow.

I would prefer to move the second commit to another PR, because it's not related to the functional change here and I don't feel like arguing about stylistic changes.

I don't love the idea of the extra option to acknowledge the change, I'd like to avoid it if possible, but if there's no better way, then we leave it.
I wonder if we cannot just assign lib.warn "..." true as the option default and have people assign true or false explicitly, instead of introducing yet another option. But I'm not sure if the module system is sufficiently non-strict to avoid forcing values assigned at lower priority than the one that will end up used.

[trueNAHO]

I would prefer to move the second commit to another PR, because it's not related to the functional change here and I don't feel like arguing about stylistic changes.

The

readme: subjectively improve examples
tests: remove default option declaration

commits are included in this patchset to avoid merge conflicts with the

treewide: disable programs.nix-index.enable option by default
shared: add programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option

commits, while the

readme: remove trailing whitespaces

commit is included in this patchset for simplicity reasons.

I don't love the idea of the extra option to acknowledge the change, I'd like to avoid it if possible, but if there's no better way, then we leave it. I wonder if we cannot just assign lib.warn "..." true as the option default and have people assign true or false explicitly, instead of introducing yet another option. But I'm not sure if the module system is sufficiently non-strict to avoid forcing values assigned at lower priority than the one that will end up used.

The following end-user module triggers the warning when config.nix-index.enable == false, if we declare config.programs.nix-index.enable to lib.mkDefault (lib.warn "..." false):

{
  config,
  inputs,
  lib,
  ...
}: {
  imports = [inputs.nix-index-database.hmModules.nix-index];
  options.nix-index.enable = lib.mkEnableOption "nix-index";

  config = lib.mkIf config.nix-index.enable {
    programs = {
      nix-index-database.comma.enable = true;
      nix-index.enable = true;
    };
  };
}

In that case, end-users have to use the following potentially undesired workaround:

11,15c11,13
<   config = lib.mkIf config.nix-index.enable {
<     programs = {
<       nix-index-database.comma.enable = true;
<       nix-index.enable = true;
<     };
---
>   config.programs = {
>     nix-index-database.comma.enable = config.nix-index.enable;
>     nix-index.enable = config.nix-index.enable;

If we provide an explicit breaking change option, end-users get a proper warning once this option is deprecated:

{
  config,
  inputs,
  lib,
  ...
}: {
  imports = [inputs.nix-index-database.hmModules.nix-index];
  options.nix-index.enable = lib.mkEnableOption "nix-index";

  config = lib.mkMerge [
    {
      # This will trigger a proper warning once this upstream option is
      # deprecated with lib.mkRemovedOptionModule.
      programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange = true;
    }

    (
      lib.mkIf config.nix-index.enable {
        programs = {
          nix-index-database.comma.enable = true;
          nix-index.enable = true;
        };
      }
    )
  ];
}

Otherwise, end-users have to use the workaround and will never be notified when the workaround is no longer necessary.

[trueNAHO]

Changelog

v3: 8f6bf3e

• Rebase on top of commit 271e5bd ("update generated.nix to release 2025-01-12-031855")

v2: 928ab2e

• Rename commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option to shared: add programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option

v1: fd1dc42

• Add commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option, allowing end-users to explicitly acknowledge and disable the breaking change warning
• Add more changes to commit readme: subjectively improve examples
• Reorder commits such that commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option and treewide: disable programs.nix-index.enable option by default are the last two commits
• Add Link: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index-database/pull/132 tag to every commit

v0: 4b18f07

[trueNAHO]

Friendly ping: @r-vdp

[trueNAHO]

Changelog

v5: 33b2e62

• Rebase on top of commit 4657925 ("update generated.nix to release 2025-02-23-031515")

v4: e35a2c2

• Rebase on top of commit 46a8f5f ("update generated.nix to release 2025-02-02-030235")

v3: 8f6bf3e

• Rebase on top of commit 271e5bd ("update generated.nix to release 2025-01-12-031855")

v2: 928ab2e

• Rename commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option to shared: add programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option

v1: fd1dc42

• Add commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option, allowing end-users to explicitly acknowledge and disable the breaking change warning
• Add more changes to commit readme: subjectively improve examples
• Reorder commits such that commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option and treewide: disable programs.nix-index.enable option by default are the last two commits
• Add Link: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index-database/pull/132 tag to every commit

v0: 4b18f07

[trueNAHO]

Changelog

v6: 2072ea4

• Rebase on top of commit 4fc9ea7 ("update generated.nix to release 2025-04-13-041853")

v5: 33b2e62

• Rebase on top of commit 4657925 ("update generated.nix to release 2025-02-23-031515")

v4: e35a2c2

• Rebase on top of commit 46a8f5f ("update generated.nix to release 2025-02-02-030235")

v3: 8f6bf3e

• Rebase on top of commit 271e5bd ("update generated.nix to release 2025-01-12-031855")

v2: 928ab2e

• Rename commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option to shared: add programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option

v1: fd1dc42

• Add commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option, allowing end-users to explicitly acknowledge and disable the breaking change warning
• Add more changes to commit readme: subjectively improve examples
• Reorder commits such that commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option and treewide: disable programs.nix-index.enable option by default are the last two commits
• Add Link: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index-database/pull/132 tag to every commit

v0: 4b18f07

[trueNAHO]

Friendly ping: @Mic92, @r-vdp

[r-vdp]

I agree with the idea behind this PR, but I don't necessarily agree with all of the other changes that you made that have nothing to do with this enable option. I gave you the same feedback before.

So, as before, I'd suggest that you remove those changes from this PR.
Feel free to open a new one for those changes and then we can discuss them there.

[trueNAHO]

Changelog

v8: 395c618

• Revert noisy whitespace changes that were not properly removed when removing commit 5f9f5d5 ("readme: remove trailing whitespaces") in v7.

v7: 786aecf

• Rebase on top of commit 1875247 ("update generated.nix to release 2025-04-27-033009")
• Move commit a2d7bdd ("tests: remove default option declaration") from v6 into tests: remove default option declaration #145.
• Move and squash commits 27f9930 ("readme: subjectively improve examples") and 5f9f5d5 ("readme: remove trailing whitespaces") from v6 into readme: subjectively improve examples #144. Both commits are squashed into one PR to arguably simplify their reviewing process.

v6: 2072ea4

• Rebase on top of commit 4fc9ea7 ("update generated.nix to release 2025-04-13-041853")

v5: 33b2e62

• Rebase on top of commit 4657925 ("update generated.nix to release 2025-02-23-031515")

v4: e35a2c2

• Rebase on top of commit 46a8f5f ("update generated.nix to release 2025-02-02-030235")

v3: 8f6bf3e

• Rebase on top of commit 271e5bd ("update generated.nix to release 2025-01-12-031855")

v2: 928ab2e

• Rename commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option to shared: add programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option

v1: fd1dc42

• Add commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option, allowing end-users to explicitly acknowledge and disable the breaking change warning
• Add more changes to commit readme: subjectively improve examples
• Reorder commits such that commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option and treewide: disable programs.nix-index.enable option by default are the last two commits
• Add Link: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index-database/pull/132 tag to every commit

v0: 4b18f07

[trueNAHO]

I agree with the idea behind this PR, but I don't necessarily agree with all of the other changes that you made that have nothing to do with this enable option. I gave you the same feedback before.

So, as before, I'd suggest that you remove those changes from this PR. Feel free to open a new one for those changes and then we can discuss them there.

Yes. My bad for not entirely understanding that part at first. I moved all commits except for "treewide: disable programs.nix-index.enable option by default" and "shared: add programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option" into seperate PRs in v7.

[r-vdp]

I think not providing a default at all is indeed better, it will print a clear error that most nix users will easily understand.

Including this option is also a future maintenance issue, we need to decide when to remove it (which will be again a breaking change for people who decided to set it), and it also doesn't make it clear which breaking change you're acknowledging, in case we introduce a new one before we remove this option.

So, I'd remove this option and just not provide a default for the enable option for now.

[trueNAHO]

Changelog

v9: fcd8050

• Drop commit 395c618 ("shared: add programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option")

v8: 395c618

• Revert noisy whitespace changes that were not properly removed when removing commit 5f9f5d5 ("readme: remove trailing whitespaces") in v7.

v7: 786aecf

• Rebase on top of commit 1875247 ("update generated.nix to release 2025-04-27-033009")
• Move commit a2d7bdd ("tests: remove default option declaration") from v6 into tests: remove default option declaration #145.
• Move and squash commits 27f9930 ("readme: subjectively improve examples") and 5f9f5d5 ("readme: remove trailing whitespaces") from v6 into readme: subjectively improve examples #144. Both commits are squashed into one PR to arguably simplify their reviewing process.

v6: 2072ea4

• Rebase on top of commit 4fc9ea7 ("update generated.nix to release 2025-04-13-041853")

v5: 33b2e62

• Rebase on top of commit 4657925 ("update generated.nix to release 2025-02-23-031515")

v4: e35a2c2

• Rebase on top of commit 46a8f5f ("update generated.nix to release 2025-02-02-030235")

v3: 8f6bf3e

• Rebase on top of commit 271e5bd ("update generated.nix to release 2025-01-12-031855")

v2: 928ab2e

• Rename commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option to shared: add programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option

v1: fd1dc42

• Add commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option, allowing end-users to explicitly acknowledge and disable the breaking change warning
• Add more changes to commit readme: subjectively improve examples
• Reorder commits such that commit shared: add config.programs.nix-index.acknowledgeBreakingChange option and treewide: disable programs.nix-index.enable option by default are the last two commits
• Add Link: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index-database/pull/132 tag to every commit

v0: 4b18f07

[r-vdp]

Thanks!