From 96acd099e1645908c2dded2a4adc14e065553387 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Edwards <ben@artfuldodge.io>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:16:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] nixos/default.nix: Allow specialArgs to be passed

To allow plain nixos configrations the same power as flakes, we must
expose specialArgs, otherwise a classic pattern importing all of ones
"inputs" (i.e. npins sources), and then exposing them to the module
system becomes impossible due to the fact that imports must be
statically resolvable so these sources cannot be passed in the existing
entry point using _module.args if the sources themselves have modules to
be imported.
---
 nixos/default.nix | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nixos/default.nix b/nixos/default.nix
index f338e13fadb0..f87dd9a93365 100644
--- a/nixos/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 {
   configuration ? import ./lib/from-env.nix "NIXOS_CONFIG" <nixos-config>,
   system ? builtins.currentSystem,
+  # This should only be used for special arguments that need to be evaluated when resolving module structure (like in imports).
+  # For everything else, there's _module.args.
+  specialArgs ? { },
 }:
 
 let
 
   eval = import ./lib/eval-config.nix {
-    inherit system;
+    inherit system specialArgs;
     modules = [ configuration ];
   };