fix(welcome): drop Step 4's dead starter home.nix generation

`nomarchy-welcome` wrote a "starter" `~/.config/home-manager/home.nix`
for users without one. Two problems:

1. Wrong path. The installer-generated canonical home.nix lives at
   `/etc/nixos/home.nix` and is imported via the flake (both
   home-manager.users and the standalone homeConfigurations). Nothing
   in the installer flow ever reads `~/.config/home-manager/home.nix`
   — it's a dead file.
2. Broken content. The starter is missing `home.username`,
   `home.homeDirectory`, `home.stateVersion`, and doesn't import
   `nomarchy.nixosModules.home`. Even on a hand-migration path it
   wouldn't evaluate as a standalone HM config.

So in the installer flow it's dead, and in the migration flow it's
broken. Removed Step 4 entirely. The git-init step (was Step 5) is
now Step 4. Hand-migrated users follow `docs/MIGRATION.md`, which has
the correct home.nix template.

Found during Pillar 8 audit of first-boot UX.
This commit is contained in:
Bernardo Magri
2026-05-19 18:46:30 +01:00
parent bfd95cb40b
commit 6e0d17b859

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@@ -59,39 +59,9 @@ if [[ "$USER" == "nixos" ]]; then
exit 0
fi
# 4. Starter home.nix
# 4. Setup Local Repo (Crucial for nomarchy-env-update to work)
echo ""
echo "Step 4: Starter home.nix"
HOME_NIX="$HOME/.config/home-manager/home.nix"
if [ ! -f "$HOME_NIX" ]; then
echo "It looks like you don't have a ~/.config/home-manager/home.nix file yet."
echo "Nomarchy uses this file to manage your user-level packages and settings."
if gum confirm "Would you like to generate a starter home.nix?"; then
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$HOME_NIX")"
cat <<EOF > "$HOME_NIX"
{ pkgs, ... }:
{
# Nomarchy starter home.nix
# Add your user packages here.
home.packages = with pkgs; [
btop
fastfetch
chromium
# Add more packages here
];
# home.stateVersion = "25.11"; # Consult docs/MIGRATION.md if you change this
}
EOF
echo "Starter home.nix generated at $HOME_NIX"
fi
else
echo "Detected existing home.nix at $HOME_NIX. Skipping generation."
fi
# 5. Setup Local Repo (Crucial for nomarchy-env-update to work)
echo ""
echo "Step 5: Git Repository Check"
echo "Step 4: Git Repository Check"
echo "Nomarchy relies on a local git repository for declarative updates."
if [ ! -d "/etc/nixos/.git" ]; then
echo "Warning: /etc/nixos is not a git repository. Declarative updates might fail."
@@ -102,7 +72,7 @@ if [ ! -d "/etc/nixos/.git" ]; then
fi
fi
# 6. Success
# 5. Success
echo ""
echo "Applying all changes..."
nomarchy-env-update