Emit a warning when attempting to set nixpkgs.overlays while home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true
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Description
When
home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true, settingnixpkgs.overlaysin the home configuration has no effect. I unknowingly haduseGlobalPkgsenabled in my config and struggled for days with overlays not applying. There should be a warning emitted if a user tries to add an overlay to nixpkgs in their home configuration whileuseGlobalPkgsis enabled, informing them of this relationship.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: