Template talk:File:nixos

Template naming issue

Hi! 👋 Just a note, this template doesn't work since the colon is being taken as you specifying a full page name, rather than a template-based wiki page name. So it's looking to transclude File:nixos.

I think the solution would be to rename the template. Already File:nixos seems awkward to me. If it is thought to be desirable to have this specialisation, I think nixos-configuration as the template name would better represent what this is meant to be used for.

samueldr (talk) 00:56, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look. I'm not sure why this doesn't work when say Template:Nixos:option works. Renaming it is a good suggestion, but I was thinking of creating other wrappers over the file template such as file:flake for /etc/nixos/flake.nix and local config at ~/.config/nix/config.nix etc.

Sdht0 (talk) 00:00, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

The reason it doesn't work (AFAIUI) is that File: is a valid namespace, meanwhile NixOS: isn't.

To be fair, I don't think this is needed. Adding too much specific templating magic isn't great. I think that using the {{file}} template and letting users conscientiously type the filename is better than hoping they pick the right pre-baked template here.

samueldr (talk) 01:16, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Alright makes sense. How about I just rename this to nixos-config then, because this is a common enough that I expect will be used on most articles?

Sdht0 (talk) 01:23, 8 April 2024 (UTC)