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@ -454,6 +454,12 @@ actually invoking `nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem`. The latter is the much more
sinister part, and the reason I would strongly recommend inline modules with
closures instead of `specialArgs`: they break flake composition.
That being said, *either* using `specialArgs` *or* an inline module inside
`flake.nix`, rather than an option above, is the only way to inject module
imports. That is, if one uses some option like `imports = [ config.someOption
]`, it will cause an infinite recursion error. We would suggest putting the
imports inside an inline module inside `flake.nix` for this case.
To use `specialArgs`, an attribute set is passed into `nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem`,
which then land in the arguments of NixOS modules: