Add how to reference custom packages in modules. #5
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jakehamilton
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Feb 23, 2024
| @@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { | |||
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| This package will be made available on your flake's `packages` output with the same name as the | |||
| directory that you created. | |||
| directory that you created (i.e. `packages.my-package`). Also, from inside a module you can reference it via `pkgs.${namespace}` (i.e. `pkgs.plusultra.my-package`). | |||
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I think we can probably reword this to mention how this is done as a part of overlays which are why system configuration receives these packages as a namespaced collection on pkgs.
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The finger-point on how to install a custom package inside a module was missing previously.
Thanks for all the fish!