home-environment: use generation path as profile path

We cannot guarantee that the Nix store will be writable during startup
so installing the user packages through `nix-env -i` may fail.
Therefore, when building through the NixOS module install through the
`users.users.<name?>.packages` option.

modules/home-environment.nix

@@ -269,7 +269,10 @@ in
     home.username = mkDefault (builtins.getEnv "USER");
     home.homeDirectory = mkDefault (builtins.getEnv "HOME");
 
-    home.profileDirectory = cfg.homeDirectory + "/.nix-profile";
+    home.profileDirectory =
+      if config.submoduleSupport.enable
+      then config.home.path
+      else cfg.homeDirectory + "/.nix-profile";
 
     home.sessionVariables =
       let
@@ -307,9 +310,31 @@ in
     home.activation.writeBoundary = dag.entryAnywhere "";
 
     # Install packages to the user environment.
-    home.activation.installPackages = dag.entryAfter ["writeBoundary"] ''
+    #
+    # Note, if we are running as a NixOS module then we cannot rely on
+    # `nix-env -i` because our target may not allow modification of
+    # the Nix store. We will instead use the
+    # `users.users.<name?>.packages` NixOS option. We still need this
+    # activation command, however, since some modules need to ensure
+    # that their activation commands are run after packages are
+    # guaranteed to be installed.
+    #
+    # In case the user has moved from a user-install of Home Manager
+    # to one managed through the NixOS module we attempt to uninstall
+    # the `home-manager-path` package if it is installed.
+    home.activation.installPackages = dag.entryAfter ["writeBoundary"] (
+      if config.submoduleSupport.enable
+      then
+        ''
+          if nix-env -q | grep '^home-manager-path$'; then
+            nix-env -e home-manager-path
+          fi
+        ''
+      else
+        ''
           $DRY_RUN_CMD nix-env -i ${cfg.path}
-    '';
+        ''
+    );
 
     home.activationPackage =
       let

modules/misc/fontconfig.nix

@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ in
     };
   };
 
-  config = mkIf cfg.enableProfileFonts {
+  config = mkMerge [
+    (mkIf cfg.enableProfileFonts {
       xdg.configFile."fontconfig/conf.d/10-nix-profile-fonts.conf".text = ''
         <?xml version='1.0'?>
         <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
@@ -37,5 +38,22 @@ in
           <dir>${config.home.profileDirectory}/share/fonts</dir>
         </fontconfig>
       '';
-  };
+    })
+
+    # If we are inside a NixOS system configuration then packages are
+    # installed through the NixOS `users.users.<name?>.packages`
+    # option. Unfortunately fontconfig does not know about the
+    # per-user installation directory so we have to add that directory
+    # in a extra configuration file.
+    (mkIf config.submoduleSupport.enable {
+      xdg.configFile."fontconfig/conf.d/10-nix-per-user-fonts.conf".text = ''
+        <?xml version='1.0'?>
+        <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
+        <fontconfig>
+          <dir>/etc/profiles/per-user/${config.home.username}/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
+          <dir>/etc/profiles/per-user/${config.home.username}/share/fonts</dir>
+        </fontconfig>
+      '';
+    })
+  ];
 }

nixos/default.nix

@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ in
   };
 
   config = mkIf (cfg.users != {}) {
+    users.users = 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}";