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+# this file is an impure recreation of the flake profile currently deployed
+# based on the systems hostname. The purpose is so tools which do not yet have
+# flake support (e.g `nixos-option`), can work as expected.
+{ lib, ... }:
+let
+  host = lib.fileContents /etc/hostname;
+in
+{
+  imports = [
+    "${builtins.fetchTarball https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz}/nixos"
+    /etc/nixos/profiles/core.nix
+    "/etc/nixos/configurations/${host}.nix"
+  ];
+
+  networking.hostName = host;
+  nix.nixPath = [
+    "nixpkgs=${<nixpkgs>}"
+    "nixos-config=/etc/nixos/configuration.nix"
+  ];
+}