What's the proper way to set up nix / home manager w/ flakes, directory wise?

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  • digga

    A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.

  • Yes, I put the repository in ~/nix. My repository is based on devos, but I am thinking of switching to a different setup, because I don't want to depend on a framework which can be an issue in updating.

  • nixpkgs-config

    ~/.config/nixpkgs

  • I have a home-manager + flakes setup here: https://github.com/jonringer/nixpkgs-config. You're more than welcome to find steal any inspiration.

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  • dotfiles

  • For reference here's yet another flake example. It's very basic compared to already posted flakes https://github.com/sebastiant/dotfiles

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