My linux config and rc files https://git.sommerfeld.dev/dotfiles/atom/nix/host.nix?h=master 2026-05-29T10:18:16Z 2026-05-29T10:18:16Z sommerfeld sommerfeld@sommerfeld.dev 2026-05-29T10:18:16Z urn:sha1:be3c6fda881bc11d5123d6b3a09ce9d250199b32 The AUR `external-editor-revived` PKGBUILD declares a hard `thunderbird` dependency, which blocks removing the unused system Thunderbird binary alongside the org.mozilla.thunderbird flatpak (and pacman's `AssumeInstalled` is a CLI flag, not a pacman.conf directive, so the previous workaround was nonfunctional). Nixpkgs' `external-editor-revived` is just `rustPlatform.buildRustPackage` plus a relocatable native-messaging manifest — zero mailer dep — so the host gets it from nix instead. * nix/host.nix: add `external-editor-revived` to `home.packages`. Kept out of `common.nix` so the remote-dev VM (which has no Thunderbird) doesn't carry the build closure. * run_onchange_after_deploy-tb-eer.sh.tmpl: search `~/.nix-profile/{bin,lib/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts}` first and fall through to the legacy pacman paths. The chezmoi manifest-hash probe now checks the nix path too, so the hook re-runs cleanly when nix bumps the EER version. * meta/base.txt: drop the `external-editor-revived` AUR entry and rewrite the comment to point at the nix declaration. * etc/pacman.conf: revert the bogus `AssumeInstalled` directive (CLI-only, not pacman.conf). On-host migration: home-manager switch --flake ~/dotfiles/nix#host # picks up EER sudo pacman -Rns external-editor-revived thunderbird mpv chezmoi apply -v # re-runs tb-eer hook 2026-05-20T12:56:11Z sommerfeld sommerfeld@sommerfeld.dev 2026-05-20T12:56:11Z urn:sha1:639f3cb82ef9f1e6dd0b47cf506ff3c09fd4a5a7 Per user decision: on the Arch host, chezmoi remains the single deployer of $HOME dotfiles. nix/common.nix's xdg.configFile + sshConfig activation + .zshenv home.file block was causing home-manager to fight chezmoi on every nix-switch, materializing .backup files for nvim, zellij, zsh, git, ghostty, direnv. Resolution: - nix/common.nix: drop the entire deployment block, drop the my.dotfilesPath option, drop the let..in dotfiles/link helpers. Module is now deployment-agnostic: only installs packages. - nix/host.nix: drop my.dotfilesPath; explicit comment that chezmoi owns dotfile deployment on the host. - nix/vm.nix: gains everything previously in common.nix's deployment block — xdg.configFile (nvim/zellij/zsh/git/ghostty/direnv), home.activation.sshConfig, home.file.".zshenv". The 'dotfiles' let-binding (= $HOME/.local/share/dotfiles) and 'link' helper move here too, since they're vm-only now. Host runbook unchanged (`just sync`); first run after pulling will just be a no-op nix-switch instead of a backup-file storm. 2026-05-20T12:56:10Z sommerfeld sommerfeld@sommerfeld.dev 2026-05-20T12:56:10Z urn:sha1:58f2d61be4c55c7cf7bdbb12f3fed6794e7481b5 - common.nix hardcoded the runtime dotfiles checkout to ~/.local/share/dotfiles, which is correct for the remote-dev VM but not the Arch host (where the canonical clone lives at ~/dotfiles). ssh activation was failing with 'cannot stat /home/sommerfeld/.local/share/dotfiles/private_dot_ssh/config' on every host nix-switch. Promote the path to a typed option (config.my.dotfilesPath) and set it from each profile: nix/host.nix -> $HOME/dotfiles nix/vm.nix -> $HOME/.local/share/dotfiles common.nix now wraps its config in 'config = { ... }' so the options can sit alongside. - dockerfile-language-server-nodejs was renamed in nixpkgs to dockerfile-language-server; pick up the new name to silence the evaluation warning (the rename will eventually become a hard error). 2026-05-20T12:56:09Z sommerfeld sommerfeld@sommerfeld.dev 2026-05-20T12:56:09Z urn:sha1:de5146c7976e1fb38e8d1f82c30544462d881100 Restructures the Home-Manager profile to support both the Arch host and the Ubuntu remote-dev VM from the same flake. - remote-dev/ → nix/ (hard rename; .chezmoiignore updated) - home.nix split into common.nix (shared), vm.nix (Mason runtime carve-outs + podman stack), host.nix (gpg scdaemon delegation to system pcscd) - flake.nix exposes homeConfigurations.{vm,host} via a mkProfile helper - rj alias in dot_zshrc updated to ~/.local/share/dotfiles/nix - bootstrap.sh / justfile updated to use #vm against the new path The split is behaviour-preserving for the VM: vm.nix + common.nix together carry the same package set as the previous home.nix. host.nix is provisioned but not yet wired into bootstrap (phase p8). Phase 1 of the nix-on-host migration plan.