"The option is used but not defined" on nix-darwin

[adrianord]

Nixpkgs channel: master
Home-manager version: master

Description

When trying to use this module at all, I get the following error message

building the system configuration...
error: The option `home-manager.users.aordonez.programs.nixvim' is used but not defined.
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)

Even with a very simple flake.nix which I will supply below.

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong on my side, but from referencing other people's nix configs who are using this flake on nixos, I don't believe I'm doing anything differently other than being on macos

Config

{
  description = "";

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/master";

    darwin.url = "github:lnl7/nix-darwin/master";
    darwin.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";

    home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
    home-manager.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";

    nixvim.url = "github:pta2002/nixvim";
  };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, darwin, home-manager, ... }@inputs:
    {
      darwinConfigurations.gon = darwin.lib.darwinSystem {
        system = "aarch64-darwin";
        specialArgs = { inherit inputs; };
        modules = [
          home-manager.darwinModules.home-manager
          {
            nix.extraOptions = ''
              experimental-features = nix-command flakes
            '';
          }
          {
            users.users.aordonez = {
              name = "aordonez";
            };
            home-manager.users.aordonez = {

              home.stateVersion = "22.11";
              imports = [ inputs.nixvim.homeManagerModules.nixvim ];
            };
          }
        ];
      };
    };
}

[pta2002]

Ah damn I can try to fix this but it'll be incredibly hard for me to debug because I don't own a mac :/

[volkswagenfeature]

I have had this bug as well on NixOS. I discovered that installing, but not activating this package does not work properly. Adding programs.nixvim.enable=true let my flake build.

[adrianord]

Thanks @volkswagenfeature, it seems as much as defining programs.nixvim = {}; is enough to resolve the error.

[gaetgu]

I can also confirm that setting program.nixvim to anything resolves this issue. You can probably mark this as closed, then, (and maybe add something to the readme? even just a link pointing to this issue)

[pta2002]

Yeah this is an issue I've had before and I haven't been able to figure out what's causing it. I'll need to look into it better.

[pta2002]

Hey, can anyone confirm if this is still an issue? I have a vague idea of a similar issue having been fixed on other platforms, so if it's fixed I'd like to close this :)

[GaetanLepage]

I was not able to reproduce on NixOS.
Adding the module without specifying any configuration (not even programs.nixvim.enable = true) is working fine.

Could someone try again on darwin ?

[fabianpage]

I did run darwin-rebuild build --flake .#gon with the flake.nix from the first post and was able to build the flake:

❯ ll
.rw-r--r-- 8.3k fabian 17 Jul 18:51 flake.lock
.rw-r--r-- 1.1k fabian 17 Jul 18:50 flake.nix
lrwxr-xr-x   96 fabian 17 Jul 18:52 result -> /nix/store/74z5j2cl2pn9p5awrr8f7ik97rgn9c1b-darwin-system-23.11.20230717.82951ca+darwin4.61662a6

[GaetanLepage]

Ok, thank you @fabianpage for testing.
I will close this issue as we are not able to reproduce this bug.
Feel free to reopen/complain if this happens again.