{ config, lib, pkgs, baseModules, modules, ... }: with lib; let cfg = config.documentation; # To reference the regular configuration from inside the docs evaluation further down. # While not strictly necessary, this extra binding avoids accidental name capture in # the future. regularConfig = config; argsModule = { config._module.args = regularConfig._module.args // { modules = [ ]; }; }; /* For the purpose of generating docs, evaluate options with each derivation in `pkgs` (recursively) replaced by a fake with path "\${pkgs.attribute.path}". It isn't perfect, but it seems to cover a vast majority of use cases. Caveat: even if the package is reached by a different means, the path above will be shown and not e.g. `${config.services.foo.package}`. */ manual = import ../../doc/manual rec { inherit pkgs config; version = config.system.darwinVersion; revision = config.system.darwinRevision; options = let scrubbedEval = evalModules { modules = baseModules ++ [ argsModule ]; specialArgs = { pkgs = scrubDerivations "pkgs" pkgs; }; }; scrubDerivations = namePrefix: pkgSet: mapAttrs (name: value: let wholeName = "${namePrefix}.${name}"; in if isAttrs value then scrubDerivations wholeName value // (optionalAttrs (isDerivation value) { outPath = "\${${wholeName}}"; }) else value ) pkgSet; in scrubbedEval.options; }; helpScript = pkgs.writeScriptBin "darwin-help" '' #! ${pkgs.stdenv.shell} -e open ${manual.manualHTMLIndex} ''; in { options = { documentation.enable = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = true; description = '' Whether to install documentation of packages from into the generated system path. See "Multiple-output packages" chapter in the nixpkgs manual for more info. ''; # which is at ../../../doc/multiple-output.xml }; documentation.man.enable = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = true; description = '' Whether to install manual pages and the man command. This also includes "man" outputs. ''; }; documentation.info.enable = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = true; description = '' Whether to install info pages and the info command. This also includes "info" outputs. ''; }; documentation.doc.enable = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = true; description = '' Whether to install documentation distributed in packages' /share/doc. Usually plain text and/or HTML. This also includes "doc" outputs. ''; }; }; config = mkIf cfg.enable { programs.man.enable = cfg.man.enable; programs.info.enable = cfg.info.enable; environment.systemPackages = mkMerge [ (mkIf cfg.man.enable [ manual.manpages ]) (mkIf cfg.doc.enable [ manual.manualHTML helpScript ]) ]; system.build.manual = manual; }; }