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42 lines
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# External Art
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When you need to use a module, overlay, or pass a value from one of your inputs
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to the rest of your NixOS configuration, you can make use of a couple arguments.
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It is encouraged to add external art directly in your `flake.nix` so the file
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represents a complete dependency overview of your flake.
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## Overlays
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External overlays can directly be added to a channel's `overlays` list.
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flake.nix:
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```nix
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{
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channels.nixos.overlays = [ inputs.agenix.overlay ];
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}
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```
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Upon exporting overlays, these overlays will be automatically filtered out by inspecting the `inputs` argument.
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## Modules
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There is a dedicated `nixos.hostDefaults.externalModules` argument for external
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modules.
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flake.nix:
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```nix
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{
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nixos.hostDefaults.externalModules = [ inputs.agenix.nixosModules.age ];
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}
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```
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## Home Manager
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Since there isn't a `hosts` concept for home-manager, externalModules is just a
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top-level argument in the `home` namespace.
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flake.nix:
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```nix
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{
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home.externalModules = [ doom-emacs = doom-emacs.hmModule ];
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}
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```
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> ##### Note:
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> To avoid declaring "external" modules separately, which is obvious since they come from `inputs`, the optimal solution would be to automatically export modules that were created in
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> your flake. But this is not possible due to NixOS/nix#4740.
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