profiles

[blaggacao]

flake-utils-plus/systemFlake.nix

Line 9 in 51cb739

, nixosProfiles ? { }

nixosProfiles do contain system profiles, in a sense, but more accurately they contain host configs.

This clashes with devos' usage of the term profiles which is reserved for a very special meaning:

• profiles cannot declare options, but only make use of them. (while anything that declares options are modules)
• this rule makes modules a lot more reusable among the community

With fup reserving the name, we might have a problem finding an alternative naming scheme. (and also it's somewhat established, already)

/cc @Pacman99

[nrdxp]

FWIW, I got the term "profiles" directly from the nixpkgs module directory where it is already being used in this fashion.

[gytis-ivaskevicius]

I am quite a fan of the name profiles for this particular use case and you must suggest quite a bit more attractive naming for this particular case for me to change it.

Also, may I add that I've seen several repos with profiles folder which represents the same thing as flake-utils-plus do.

[blaggacao]

Hm, @gytis-ivaskevicius that does not solve my (our) problem. Would you care and try to find a negotiated consensus solution?

From devos' perspective, there are no alternative namings available.

We are trying to catch the same trout, here.

👎 for closing. 😉

One obvious suggestion would be either nixosHosts or nixosHostProfiles.

Both would preserve upstream usage semantics of the single word "profiles".

Also, may I add that I've seen several repos with profiles folder which represents the same thing as flake-utils-plus do.

We would care less how people actually name their folders. The goal is to wrap fup and implement a strict superset of its function api. That means the function api namespace is a shared one.

As I had understood it the goal of fup is to be generally useful and even become upstreamed into fu. So the function args namespace it consumes is of greater interest.

[gytis-ivaskevicius]

Alright, this will be fixed using the name nixosHosts as part of the wrapper function for time being until we finalize the API

[blaggacao]

Thank you! Much appreciated. 👍

[blaggacao]

closed in #20