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home-manager: move tests into new test flake

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Having the tests available in the main Nix Flake introduces
unnecessary evaluation for non-developer users and, worse, a
dependency on the nmt library.

Fixes #6354
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Robert Helgesson 2025-01-24 19:59:46 +01:00
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docs/manual/contributing/tests.md
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@ -29,10 +29,16 @@ through
$ nix-shell --pure tests -A run.alacritty-empty-settings
```
However, those invocations will impurely source the system's nixpkgs,
and may cause failures. To run against the nixpkgs from the flake.lock,
However, those invocations will impurely source the system's Nixpkgs,
and may cause failures. To run against the Nixpkgs from the `flake.lock` file,
use instead e.g.
``` shell
$ nix develop --ignore-environment .#all
$ nix build --reference-lock-file flake.lock ./tests#test-all
```
or
``` shell
$ nix build --reference-lock-file flake.lock ./tests#test-alacritty-empty-settings
```

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@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ This release has the following notable changes:
The `"suggest"` alternative will remain for a while longer but may
also be deprecated for removal in the future.
- The Home Manager test suite has been removed from the main Nix Flake
since it caused unnecessary evaluations and downloads. Instead the
tests are available through a Nix Flake file inside the `tests`
directory. See [](#sec-tests) for example commands.
## State Version Changes {#sec-release-25.05-state-version-changes}
The state version in this release includes the changes below. These