yea i think it may just not be possible yet, looking it up more i've seen people talking abt how a big con of flakes is that flake.nix is not parsed like regular nix files. I'm not sure why they made it work like that but it gets changed eventually cuz that's really too bad we can't do things as simple as imports

Yea I'm pretty sure I've also did this correctly since it in fact worked just fine with this electron package I've had in here for a little while now. Looking in nix-tree and searching for nodejs but the only nodejs versions I'm finding are 24.14.1 and no sign of the insecure version. Tried exporting the env and rebuilding my config but it didn't work either

returns this error

error: attribute 'multiPkgs' missing
        at /nix/store/j9lcrp816krraglnjk6r8iacl6jvww87-source/nixos/modules/home/packages.nix:24:19:
            23|     (lutris.overrideAttrs (_: prevAttrs: {
            24|       multiPkgs = prevAttrs.multiPkgs ++ [
              |                   ^
            25|         (pkgs.runCommand "steamrun-lib" { } ''

if i were to guess maybe cuz multiPkgs is defined in fhsenv.nix in not in default.nix, could be wring tho im pretty new to nix packaging

I did notice lutris having its own FHS when upgrading, but aw man this looks pretty dam complicated, I'm like a week old to NixOS I have no idea how imma do this lmao, i did attempt the following

home.packages = with pkgs; [
 lutris.overrideAttrs (finalAttrs: previousAttrs: {
      multiPkgs = self ++ [(pkgs.runCommand "steamrun-lib" {}
  "mkdir $out; ln -s ${pkgs.steam-run.fhsenv}/usr/lib64 $out/lib")];
    })
];

home.packages = with pkgs; [
 lutris.override {
      buildFHSEnv = self.buildFHSEnv.override {
        multiPkgs = self ++ [(pkgs.runCommand "steamrun-lib" {}
  "mkdir $out; ln -s ${pkgs.steam-run.fhsenv}/usr/lib64 $out/lib")];
      };
    }
];

which obviously didn't work, so yea im kinda lost

I'm also really surprised that lutris' FHS just does not have anything to run native linux game by default

I followed how u did it but it doesn't seem to work, i keep getting hit with this error:

error: expected a set but got a thunk at /home/claymorwan/.dotfiles/NixOS/flake.nix:4:3

o yea this did work, i went with the first snippet but im curious abt what the better thing abt diong it in multiple files

yea i was abt to edit the post saying i found out lol, but still thanks for the help

o yea now i see better how it works, all i gotta do is learn some emacs stuff and then i should be able to do it, thanks a lot!

o dam yea i had forgotten abt the parens, now i do get this error tho, also good to mention that both package doesn't have any patches to beguin with

error: function 'anonymous lambda' called with unexpected argument 'patches'
       at /nix/store/kfcxqcxb9hcq6x33sg4cmwakbb1ifwg9-source/pkgs/tools/misc/qt5ct/default.nix:1:1:
            1| {
             | ^
            2|   mkDerivation,

yea that worked, now im getting this tho:

       … while calling the 'head' builtin
         at /nix/store/kfcxqcxb9hcq6x33sg4cmwakbb1ifwg9-source/lib/attrsets.nix:1713:13:
         1712|           if length values == 1 || pred here (elemAt values 1) (head values) then
         1713|             head values
             |             ^
         1714|           else

       … while evaluating the attribute 'value'
         at /nix/store/kfcxqcxb9hcq6x33sg4cmwakbb1ifwg9-source/lib/modules.nix:1118:7:
         1117|     // {
         1118|       value = addErrorContext "while evaluating the option `${showOption loc}':" value;
             |       ^
         1119|       inherit (res.defsFinal') highestPrio;

       … while evaluating the option `system.build.toplevel':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/kfcxqcxb9hcq6x33sg4cmwakbb1ifwg9-source/nixos/modules/system/activation/top-level.nix':

       … while evaluating the option `warnings':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/kfcxqcxb9hcq6x33sg4cmwakbb1ifwg9-source/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd.nix':

       … while evaluating the option `systemd.services.home-manager-claymorwan.serviceConfig':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/x4cardk9amcfpx2r02v8ic20aclgjxf4-source/nixos':

       … while evaluating the option `home-manager.users.claymorwan.home.file."/home/claymorwan/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/10-hm-fonts.conf".source':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/x4cardk9amcfpx2r02v8ic20aclgjxf4-source/modules/files.nix':

       … while evaluating the option `home-manager.users.claymorwan.home.file."/home/claymorwan/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/10-hm-fonts.conf".text':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/x4cardk9amcfpx2r02v8ic20aclgjxf4-source/modules/misc/xdg.nix':

       … while evaluating the option `home-manager.users.claymorwan.xdg.configFile."fontconfig/conf.d/10-hm-fonts.conf".text':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/x4cardk9amcfpx2r02v8ic20aclgjxf4-source/modules/misc/fontconfig.nix':

       … while evaluating the option `home-manager.users.claymorwan.fonts.fontconfig.configFile.fonts.text':

       … while evaluating definitions from `/nix/store/x4cardk9amcfpx2r02v8ic20aclgjxf4-source/modules/misc/fontconfig.nix':

       (stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full, detailed trace)

       error: cannot coerce a set to a string: { __functionArgs = «thunk»; __functor = «lambda __functor @ /nix/store/kfcxqcxb9hcq6x33sg4cmwakbb1ifwg9-source/lib/trivial.nix:1017:17»; override = «thunk»; tests = «thunk»; version = 1; }

well this only happens when i use the override on these packages so i suppose it is related

yea no idea why, only happens when i override these two packages

o yea that did work, I didn't find anywhere where this could be documented so I had no idea, thanks a lot!!

o i didn't know those worked just like regular urls, makes sense now

yea I'm in fact evalutating a flake, u can find it here, but I usually override my inputs' nixpkgs input with mine. I'm using nh to rebuild my config, running nh os switch -H nixos

that kinda sucks, i tried to un-override all flakes ik could use nodejs so they can use their verson of nixpkgs (which should allow nodejs 20) but nope still broken

so overriding this potential flake's nixpkgs input won't apply my permitted insecure package ? dam i thought it would, ig i gotta hunt for that flake now

i think imma go with that, tho i'd prefer if i could have my config stay pure i'll have to troubleshoot more

Well that does works, idk if it's the best way to do so tho, I did reuse ur timestamp function tho thanks

it's okay that was a good guess