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feat: add nix flake for installation via home manager
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20 changes: 20 additions & 0 deletions README.md
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cargo install mew-cli
```

nix:
```nix
# flake
{
inputs = {
mew.url = "github:programmersd21/mew";
};

outputs = { nixpkgs, mew, ...}:
{
homeConfigurations."username" = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Declare and bind the nixpkgs and home-manager inputs.

The example declares only mew, but outputs requires nixpkgs and the body references home-manager. The ... pattern accepts extra inputs but does not bind missing identifiers. The copied flake fails during evaluation before loading the module.

Proposed correction 
 inputs = {
+  nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
+  home-manager = {
+    url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
+    inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
+  };
   mew.url = "github:programmersd21/mew";
 };

-outputs = { nixpkgs, mew, ...}:
+outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, mew, ...}:
 {
   homeConfigurations."username" = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
+    pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;
     modules = [ mew.homeManagerModules.default ];
   };
 };
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In `@README.md` at line 75, Update the README flake example’s outputs argument to
explicitly bind the nixpkgs and home-manager inputs alongside mew, so the
existing outputs and homeManagerConfiguration references evaluate successfully.

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modules = [ mew.homeManagerModules.default ];
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issue: The documented flake does not bind home-manager in its outputs argument, so evaluating home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration raises an undefined-variable error.

Suggested fix: Add home-manager to the flake inputs and to the outputs argument, or use a complete existing Home Manager flake configuration.

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issue: The documented homeManagerConfiguration call omits the required pkgs argument, so the example cannot be evaluated as a standalone Home Manager configuration.

Triggers: When a user copies the documented flake configuration without supplying pkgs elsewhere.

Suggested fix: Pass pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system}; and include the required Home Manager configuration settings such as home.stateVersion.

};
};
}

# home manager
{
programs.mew.enable = true;
}
or, last but not the least, but with **your favourite AUR helper**:

```bash
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{
pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { },
}:
let
manifest = (pkgs.lib.importTOML ./Cargo.toml).package;
in
pkgs.rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
pname = manifest.name;
version = manifest.version;
cargoLock.lockFile = ./Cargo.lock;
nativeCheckInputs = [
pkgs.git
];
doCheck = true;
src = pkgs.lib.cleanSource ./.;
}
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{
description = "a fast terminal card for your project, git state, and machine";

inputs = {
nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";

home-manager = {
url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
};

outputs =
{
self,
nixpkgs,
home-manager,
}:
let
supportedSystems = [ "x86_64-linux" ];

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issue (bug_risk): The flake publishes packages only for x86_64-linux, while the Home Manager module indexes self.packages.${pkgs.system}.default; enabling the module on aarch64-linux or any supported non-Linux system therefore fails with a missing package attribute.

Triggers: When a Nix user evaluates or enables the module on a system other than x86_64-linux.

Suggested fix: Build the package for all intended systems, such as aarch64-linux and Darwin, or make the module report an explicit unsupported-system error instead of indexing a missing attribute.

Suggested change
supportedSystems = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
supportedSystems = [
"x86_64-linux"
"aarch64-linux"
"x86_64-darwin"
"aarch64-darwin"
];

forAllSystems = nixpkgs.lib.genAttrs supportedSystems;
pkgsFor = nixpkgs.legacyPackages;
in
{
packages = forAllSystems (system: {
default = pkgsFor.${system}.callPackage ./. { };
});

apps = forAllSystems (system: {
default = {
type = "app";
program = "${self.packages.${system}.default}/bin/mew";
};
});

homeManagerModules.default =
{
config,
lib,
pkgs,
...
}:
let
cfg = config.programs.mew;
in
{
options.programs.mew = {
enable = lib.mkEnableOption "mew";

package = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.package;
default = self.packages.${pkgs.system}.default;
description = "the mew package";
};
};

config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
home.packages = [ cfg.package ];
};
};
};
}