nixos module: support NixOS user packages install

When using the NixOS module we cannot guarantee that the Nix store
will be writable during startup. Installing the user packages through
`nix-env -i` will fail in these cases.

This commit adds a NixOS option `home-manager.useUserPackages` that,
when enabled, installs user packages through the NixOS

    users.users.<name?>.packages

option.

Note, when submodule support and external package install is enabled
then the installed packages are not available in `~/.nix-profile`. We
therefore set `home.profileDirectory` directly to the HM profile
packages.

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/default.nix b/nixos/default.nix
index 1e1131f9cc7..5dec943b946 100644
--- a/nixos/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/default.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ let
 
     config = {
       submoduleSupport.enable = true;
+      submoduleSupport.externalPackageInstall = cfg.useUserPackages;
       home.username = config.users.users.${name}.name;
       home.homeDirectory = config.users.users.${name}.home;
     };
@@ -20,16 +21,29 @@ in
 
 {
   options = {
-    home-manager.users = mkOption {
-      type = types.attrsOf hmModule;
-      default = {};
-      description = ''
-        Per-user Home Manager configuration.
+    home-manager = {
+      useUserPackages = mkEnableOption ''
+        installation of user packages through the
+        <option>users.users.&lt;name?&gt;.packages</option> option.
       '';
+
+      users = mkOption {
+        type = types.attrsOf hmModule;
+        default = {};
+        description = ''
+          Per-user Home Manager configuration.
+        '';
+      };
     };
   };
 
   config = mkIf (cfg.users != {}) {
+    users.users = mkIf cfg.useUserPackages (
+      mapAttrs (username: usercfg: {
+        packages = usercfg.home.packages;
+      }) cfg.users
+    );
+
     systemd.services = mapAttrs' (username: usercfg:
       nameValuePair ("home-manager-${utils.escapeSystemdPath username}") {
         description = "Home Manager environment for ${username}";