From 28e936ba64c015caa1ce1be21ea7c790898ce336 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sandro=20J=C3=A4ckel?= <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 01:09:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] nixos/xserver: add excludePackages option

to remove packages environment.systemPackages
---
 nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix b/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix
index 0c50d82b23b..2e760e2773d 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix
@@ -181,6 +181,13 @@ in
         '';
       };
 
+      excludePackages = mkOption {
+        default = [];
+        example = literalExpression "[ pkgs.xterm ]";
+        type = types.listOf types.package;
+        description = "Which X11 packages to exclude from the default environment";
+      };
+
       exportConfiguration = mkOption {
         type = types.bool;
         default = false;
@@ -655,7 +662,7 @@ in
           ${cfgPath}.source = xorg.xf86inputevdev.out + "/share" + cfgPath;
         });
 
-    environment.systemPackages =
+    environment.systemPackages = pkgs.gnome.removePackagesByName
       [ xorg.xorgserver.out
         xorg.xrandr
         xorg.xrdb
@@ -671,7 +678,7 @@ in
         pkgs.xdg-utils
         xorg.xf86inputevdev.out # get evdev.4 man page
         pkgs.nixos-icons # needed for gnome and pantheon about dialog, nixos-manual and maybe more
-      ]
+      ] config.services.xserver.excludePackages
       ++ optional (elem "virtualbox" cfg.videoDrivers) xorg.xrefresh;
 
     environment.pathsToLink = [ "/share/X11" ];