home.nix: path with '~' can not be resolved in pure mode

[pjaglom]

I tried to follow your youtube tutorial on dotfile management with nix and home-manager, but when I try to follow your home-manager home.nix configuration, I get the following error message:

error: the path '~/.dotfiles/zshrc/.zshrc' can not be resolved in pure mode

I also tried an absolute path /Users/<my_username> and a relative path after moving my dotfile directory inside my nix-darwin directory, but the former didn't work either and the latter caused deletion issues of the dotfile repo when it replaced my nix-darwin directory.

Do you use impure evaluation with nix-darwin/home-manager? Is there another way around this error?

[ekarious]

I actually got the same problem. Trying to solve it right now.
Did you find a solution ?

[ekarious]

Found it.

you can make it work in this way

".zshrc".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "/Users/<username>/.dotfiles/zshrc/.zshrc;

Do not forget to change the username, maybe the use of $HOME might work here now.

[franco-grobler]

Using the HOME env variable works as well.