Hi Bryan, On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Bryan Ferris <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe that for complicated configurations this would lead to a tidier > config.
I honestly don't think this would help you keep your configuration isolated by concerns as the module system of NixOS does. > My goal is to be able to add one line to configuration.nix which > will import everything from the directory, meaning that you can put as much > or as little as you want into the main configuration file and you can move > code around easily in order to find the system of organization that fits > your specific use-case the best. Modules have an `imports` top-level attribute which can be used to list other files that have to be included in the configuration. > This seems like a reasonable approach to a > useful tool, no? If you really want to continue that way, I suggest you to look at the builtin function `builtins.readDir`. Otherwise, if what you are looking for a better way to lookup options, maybe you should look at `nixos-option` tool, which should help you better understand where options are defined both within NixOS, and within your own modules: $ nixos-option environment.systemPackages Declared by: "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/config/system-path.nix" Defined by: "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/x11/desktop-managers/kde4.nix" "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/x11/desktop-managers/xterm.nix" "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/virtualisation/virtualbox-guest.nix" "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/virtualisation/containers.nix" "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/tasks/swraid.nix" ... If you are looking for reading more about it, I will recommend the 2 following chapters of the NixOS manual: http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-configuration-syntax http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-writing-modules -- Nicolas Pierron http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - http://nbp.name/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
