Make NvChad work with lots of hacks

.gitignore

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 !machines/asus/git/
 !machines/asus/neovim/
 !machines/asus/neovim/config/
+!machines/asus/neovim/nvchad/
 !machines/asus/networkmanager/
 !machines/asus/nixpkgs/
 !machines/asus/nushell/

.gitmodules

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "./machines/asus/neovim/nvchad"]
+path = ./machines/asus/neovim/nvchad
+url = https://github.com/RGBCube/NvChad

flake.nix

@@ -46,10 +46,26 @@
             overlays = [fenix.overlays.default];
           };
 
-          # Helper function for DRY.
+          # Helper functiona for DRY.
           homeManagerConfiguration = userName: attrs: {
             home-manager.users.${userName} = attrs;
           };
+
+          homeManagerConfigurationWithArgs = userName: attrsFunc: {
+            home-manager.users.${userName} = args: attrsFunc args;
+          };
+
+          # Q: Can't we just do "./foo" ?
+          # A: When configuring our system with flakes, Nix copies them to the
+          # Nix store to run them. So we can't use relative paths as they will refer
+          # to a file which is in the Nix store, and is immutable because it is in
+          # the Nix store, which beats the point of abusing Home Managers
+          # mkOutOfStoreSymlink to create symlinks to mutable files.
+          # To avoid this, we must give an absolute path to a file,
+          # so we do this. The $PWD is replaced by the rebuild script
+          # with the working directory, then changed back after the build.
+          # And yes, this is a major hack.
+          projectPath = "@pwd@";
         };
 
         modules = [

machines/asus/neovim/default.nix

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ pkgs, lib, homeManagerConfiguration, ... }:
+{ pkgs, lib, homeManagerConfigurationWithArgs, projectPath, ... }:
 
 {
   # Nuking nano out of orbit.
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 //
 
-(homeManagerConfiguration "nixos" {
+(homeManagerConfigurationWithArgs "nixos" ({ config, ... }: {
   programs.neovim.enable = true;
   programs.neovim = {
     defaultEditor = true;
@@ -19,13 +19,6 @@
 
   # NvChad
   home.file.".config/nvim" = {
-    source = pkgs.callPackage ../../../packages/nvchad {};
-    recursive = true;
+    source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink projectPath + "/machines/asus/neovim/nvchad";
   };
-
-  home.file.".config/nvim/lua/custom" = {
-    source = ./config;
-    recursive = true;
-    force = true;
-  };
-})
+}))

machines/asus/neovim/nvchad

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 3dd0fa6c5b0933d9a395e2492de69c151831c66e

rebuild.sh

@@ -19,12 +19,17 @@ else
   read -p "What machine would you want to build? [$(ls --format=commas machines)]: " machine
 fi
 
-sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#$machine
+sed -ie "s|@pwd@|$PWD|g" flake.nix
 
+sudo nixos-rebuild switch --impure --flake .#$machine
 if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
+sed -ie "s|$PWD|@pwd@|g" flake.nix
+# No clue how to prevent sed from outputting this.
+rm flake.nixe
+
 if [[ $1 != "-c" && $1 != "--clean-garbage" ]]; then
     read -p "Clean garbage? [Y/N]: " clean_garbage