Question: using the example flake w/ home manager

[flpvsk]

Hello, I am able to run the example flake, but can't figure out how to integrate it into an existing setup with home manager. My config is esentially this template with slight changes: https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config/tree/main/templates/starter

The way I understand it, I'd need to

• Copy the example flake directory somewhere within the nix configuration dir;
• Import the flake by path and use one of the flake's outputs in home manager.

Is that the case?

Disclaimer:

Sorry, I'm new to nix, I've read through the docs and tried a few things but no luck.

Also, if GH is not the place to ask these kind of noob questions, please feel free to close the issue.

[BirdeeHub]

nixCats is this function

Anywhere you can call it with the correct arguments will work.

Compare the useages of that function in the example template with the other ones below it:

nixCats-nvim/templates/example/flake.nix

Lines 471 to 477 in 16ac328

	nixCatsBuilder = utils.baseBuilder luaPath {
	# we pass in the things to make a pkgs variable to build nvim with later
	inherit nixpkgs system dependencyOverlays extra_pkg_config;
	# and also our categoryDefinitions and packageDefinitions
	} categoryDefinitions packageDefinitions;
	# call it with our defaultPackageName
	defaultPackage = nixCatsBuilder defaultPackageName;

This one shows returning the same outputs, but as a function you can call:

nixCats-nvim/templates/nixExpressionFlakeOutputs/default.nix

Lines 142 to 145 in 16ac328

	nixCatsBuilder = utils.baseBuilder luaPath {
	inherit system dependencyOverlays extra_pkg_config nixpkgs;
	} categoryDefinitions packageDefinitions;
	defaultPackage = nixCatsBuilder defaultPackageName;

make one of the packages (you can make the others using it later)

nixCats-nvim/templates/flakeless/default.nix

Line 121 in 16ac328

in utils.baseBuilder luaPath { inherit pkgs; } categoryDefinitions packageDefinitions defaultPackageName

Hopefully, seeing how each of these templates works the same way, you provide the same arguments, and call it, you are able to adapt the example template to be callable within your config directly without it being a separate flake!

The special "name the input plugins-pluginname and get pkgs.neovimPlugins.pluginname is the only other thing to think about, that is simply this function which provided inputs from within the template's overlays list

In addition, you could use the module instead, but the module for nixCats simply wraps the normal function, and it changes a few of the options slightly, this is honestly probably easier to follow.

If it is not enough, you can ask more questions here about it.

BTW questions in the future that you don't think are bugs should go in the discussions page, but otherwise, yes github is a fine place to ask.