flake-aspects

What it does

flake-aspects transposes <aspect>.<class> definitions into <class>.<aspect> — the standard flake.modules layout that lib.evalModules expects. On top of that, it provides a rich composition model:

Composable DAGs — aspects declare includes to form dependency graphs
Nestable sub-aspects — tree-structured aspects via provides / _, not flat string keys
Parametric providers — curried functions that produce aspects based on parameters
__functor pattern — override and customize any aspect
Cross-class forward — share configuration between NixOS, Darwin, Home-Manager, and any custom class

Example

{
  # An aspect that provides NixOS and Home-Manager configs
  gaming = {
    includes = [ base ];  # dependency, not a string reference
    nixos = { pkgs, ... }: { environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.steam ]; };
    homeManager = { pkgs, ... }: { home.packages = [ pkgs.lutris ]; };
  };

  # Parametric: a function that returns an aspect
  user-shell = shell: {
    nixos = { pkgs, ... }: { users.users.default.shell = pkgs.${shell}; };
  };
}

Who uses it

den — built entirely on flake-aspects for its aspect resolution
Independent users — some people use flake-aspects directly without den, building their own Dendritic setups
Mixable with existing non-dendritic infrastructure

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