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+# This module defines a global environment configuration and
+# a common configuration for all shells.
+
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+with pkgs.lib;
+
+let
+
+  cfg = config.environment;
+
+in
+
+{
+
+  options = {
+
+    environment.variables = mkOption {
+      default = {};
+      description = ''
+        A set of environment variables used in the global environment.
+        The value of each variable can be either a string or a list of
+        strings.  The latter is concatenated, interspersed with colon
+        characters.
+      '';
+      type = types.attrsOf (mkOptionType {
+        name = "a string or a list of strings";
+        merge = xs:
+          let xs' = evalProperties xs; in
+          if isList (head xs') then concatLists xs'
+          else if builtins.lessThan 1 (length xs') then abort "variable in ‘environment.variables’ has multiple values"
+          else if !builtins.isString (head xs') then abort "variable in ‘environment.variables’ does not have a string value"
+          else head xs';
+      });
+      apply = mapAttrs (n: v: if isList v then concatStringsSep ":" v else v);
+    };
+
+    environment.profiles = mkOption {
+      default = [];
+      description = ''
+        A list of profiles used to setup the global environment.
+      '';
+      type = types.listOf types.string;
+    };
+
+    environment.profileVariables = mkOption {
+      default = (p: {});
+      description = ''
+        A function which given a profile path should give back
+        a set of environment variables for that profile.
+      '';
+      # !!! this should be of the following type:
+      #type = types.functionTo (types.attrsOf (types.optionSet envVar));
+      # and envVar should be changed to something more like environOpts.
+      # Having unique `value' _or_ multiple `list' is much more useful
+      # than just sticking everything together with ':' unconditionally.
+      # Anyway, to have this type mentioned above
+      # types.optionSet needs to be transformed into a type constructor
+      # (it has a !!! mark on that in nixpkgs)
+      # for now we hack all this to be
+      type = types.functionTo (types.attrsOf (types.listOf types.string));
+    };
+
+    # !!! isn't there a better way?
+    environment.extraInit = mkOption {
+      default = "";
+      description = ''
+        Shell script code called during global environment initialisation
+        after all variables and profileVariables have been set.
+        This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
+        stick to pure sh without sh word split.
+      '';
+      type = types.lines;
+    };
+
+    environment.shellInit = mkOption {
+      default = "";
+      description = ''
+        Shell script code called during shell initialisation.
+        This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
+        stick to pure sh without sh word split.
+      '';
+      type = types.lines;
+    };
+
+    environment.loginShellInit = mkOption {
+      default = "";
+      description = ''
+        Shell script code called during login shell initialisation.
+        This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
+        stick to pure sh without sh word split.
+      '';
+      type = types.lines;
+    };
+
+    environment.interactiveShellInit = mkOption {
+      default = "";
+      description = ''
+        Shell script code called during interactive shell initialisation.
+        This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
+        stick to pure sh without sh word split.
+      '';
+      type = types.lines;
+    };
+
+    environment.shellAliases = mkOption {
+      default = {};
+      example = { ll = "ls -l"; };
+      description = ''
+        An attribute set that maps aliases (the top level attribute names in
+        this option) to command strings or directly to build outputs. The
+        aliases are added to all users' shells.
+      '';
+      type = types.attrs; # types.attrsOf types.stringOrPath;
+    };
+
+    environment.binsh = mkOption {
+      default = "${config.system.build.binsh}/bin/sh";
+      example = "\${pkgs.dash}/bin/dash";
+      type = types.path;
+      description = ''
+        The shell executable that is linked system-wide to
+        <literal>/bin/sh</literal>. Please note that NixOS assumes all
+        over the place that shell to be Bash, so override the default
+        setting only if you know exactly what you're doing.
+      '';
+    };
+
+    environment.shells = mkOption {
+      default = [];
+      example = [ "/run/current-system/sw/bin/zsh" ];
+      description = ''
+        A list of permissible login shells for user accounts.
+        No need to mention <literal>/bin/sh</literal>
+        here, it is placed into this list implicitly.
+      '';
+      type = types.listOf types.path;
+    };
+
+  };
+
+  config = {
+
+    system.build.binsh = pkgs.bashInteractive;
+
+    environment.etc."shells".text =
+      ''
+        ${concatStringsSep "\n" cfg.shells}
+        /bin/sh
+      '';
+
+    system.build.setEnvironment = pkgs.writeText "set-environment"
+       ''
+         ${concatStringsSep "\n" (
+           (mapAttrsToList (n: v: ''export ${n}="${concatStringsSep ":" v}"'')
+             # This line is a kind of a hack because of !!! note above
+             (zipAttrsWith (const concatLists) ([ (mapAttrs (n: v: [ v ]) cfg.variables) ] ++ map cfg.profileVariables cfg.profiles))))}
+
+         ${cfg.extraInit}
+
+         # The setuid wrappers override other bin directories.
+         export PATH="${config.security.wrapperDir}:$PATH"
+
+         # ~/bin if it exists overrides other bin directories.
+         export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
+       '';
+
+    system.activationScripts.binsh = stringAfter [ "stdio" ]
+      ''
+        # Create the required /bin/sh symlink; otherwise lots of things
+        # (notably the system() function) won't work.
+        mkdir -m 0755 -p /bin
+        ln -sfn "${cfg.binsh}" /bin/.sh.tmp
+        mv /bin/.sh.tmp /bin/sh # atomically replace /bin/sh
+      '';
+
+  };
+
+}