backwards: Replace nix-gc-env with nh clean

`nix.gc` run as root cannot prune generations under
`~/.local/state/nix/profiles` (NixOS/nix#8508), and `nix-gc-env` only
looks in `/nix/var/nix/profiles`. Home-manager generations therefore
accumulated since August 2024 and filled the disk.

`nh clean all` enumerates users and walks their per-user profiles too.
It replaces `nix.gc.automatic`, which cannot be enabled alongside it.
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Alexander Heldt committed 2026-10-20 21:20:31 +02:00
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@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
{
inputs,
lib,
config,
...
@@ -8,8 +7,6 @@ let
configurationLimit = config.mod.gc.configurationLimit;
in
{
imports = [ inputs.nix-gc-env.nixosModules.default ];
options = {
mod.gc = {
configurationLimit = lib.mkOption {
@@ -21,12 +18,17 @@ in
};
config = {
nix.gc = {
automatic = true;
dates = "weekly";
# `nix.gc` cannot prune generations under `~/.local/state/nix/profiles`
# when run as root (NixOS/nix#8508), so home-manager generations piled up.
# `nh clean` walks those per-user profiles too.
programs.nh = {
enable = true;
# `delete_generations` added by nix-gc-env
delete_generations = "+${builtins.toString configurationLimit}";
clean = {
enable = true;
dates = "weekly";
extraArgs = "--keep ${builtins.toString configurationLimit}";
};
};
boot = {