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Home Manager is a basic system for managing a user environment using the Nix package manager together with the Nix libraries found in nixpkgs.

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Home Manager works anywhere that Nix does and populates a ~/.nix-profile ~/.nix-profile which is added to various environment PATHs to expose a bunch of Nix packaged programs to the rest of my system. I plan to slowly fork all of my Ansible automation in to this system and when the bulk of it is moved I can evaluate building fully idempotent systems with NixOS and NixOps. oh what fun! See below a cool method to generate some foot-gun shaped code!

 home-dot-nix-srcnix source: :tangle ~/nix/home-manager.nix :noweb tangle
{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:

{
  imports = [
    <<generate_imports("endpoint")>>
  ];  

  programs.home-manager.enable = true;
  home.stateVersion = "21.05";

  home.file.".config/nixpkgs/home.nix".source = ./home-manager.nix; # this file

  manual.html.enable = true;
  manual.json.enable = true;
  news.display = "silent";

  home.username = "rrix";
  home.homeDirectory = "/home/rrix";

  # set to UTF-8 or python shit breaks
  home.language.base = "en_US.UTF-8";
  home.language.time = "en_GB.UTF-8";

  # for KDE
  # https://userbase.kde.org/Session_Environment_Variables
  home.file.".config/plasma-workspace/env/profile.sh".text = ''
    source $HOME/.profile
  '';
}

nix source: :tangle ~/nix/home-manager-server.nix :noweb tangle
{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:

{
  imports = [
    <<generate_imports("server")>>
  ];

  programs.home-manager.enable = true;
  home.stateVersion = "21.05";

  home.file.".config/nixpkgs/home.nix".source = ./home-manager-server.nix;

  manual.html.enable = true;
  manual.json.enable = true;
  news.display = "silent";

  home.username = "rrix";
  home.homeDirectory = "/home/rrix";

  home.language.base = "en_US.UTF-8";
  home.language.time = "en_GB.UTF-8";

  home.file.".config/plasma-workspace/env/profile.sh".text = ''
    source $HOME/.profile
  '';
}

 generate_importslua source: :eval arroyo :results raw :var role="endpoint"
local modules = arroyo.home_modules(role)
return table.concat(modules, "\n")

This file is added to imports to get a home manager install in My NixOS configuration .

nix source: :tangle ~/nix/nixos/home-manager.nix
{ inputs, system, pkgs, ...}:

{
  home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true;
  home-manager.backupFileExtension = "hm-bak";
  home-manager.extraSpecialArgs = { inherit inputs; inherit system; };
  home-manager.users.rrix = ../home-manager.nix;
}

This one is used in The Wobserver :

nix source: :tangle ~/nix/nixos/home-manager-server.nix
{ inputs, system, pkgs, ...}:

{
  imports = [ inputs.home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager ];
  home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true;
  home-manager.backupFileExtension = "hm-bak";
  home-manager.extraSpecialArgs = { inherit inputs; inherit system; };
  home-manager.users.rrix = ../home-manager-server.nix;
}

Home Manager is included as an input:

nix source: :tangle ~/nix/snippets/home-manager-input.nix :mkdirp yes
home-manager = {
  url = "github:nix-community/home-manager/release-26.05";
  inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};