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cinereal aca42ac26a lib/services: make the portable service module self-contained

`lib/services/service.nix` reached outside of `lib/` for two class-agnostic
module fragments: `modules/generic/meta-maintainers.nix` and
`nixos/modules/misc/assertions.nix`. That prevents `lib/` from being used as a
standalone tree, which is exactly how `nixos/modules/misc/documentation.nix`
consumes it when building `lazy-options.json`.

Host both fragments in `lib/` and expose them as `lib.genericModules`, so that
consumers outside `lib/` reach them through the `lib` module argument instead of
a filesystem-relative import. The old locations become re-exports, keeping
`modules/generic/meta-maintainers.nix` importable as documented in
`modules/README.md` and `nixos/modules/misc/assertions.nix` usable from
`nixos/modules/module-list.nix`.

`lib` now shares the `filteredModules` tree in `documentation.nix`, so that
`declarations` pointing into it are stripped like the ones pointing into
`modules` and `nixos`, rather than leaving a disallowed store path reference in
`lazy-options.json`.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5

2026-08-30 21:18:31 +02:00

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lib/services: make the portable service module self-contained

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README.md

modules/README: init

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README.md

`<nixpkgs>/modules`

This directory hosts subdirectories representing each module class for which the nixpkgs repository has user-importable modules.

Exceptions:

_class = "nixos"; modules go in the <nixpkgs>/nixos/modules tree
modules whose only purpose is to test code in this repository

The emphasis is on importable modules, i.e. ones that aren't inherent to and built into the Module System application.