during docs conversion it can be very useful to know exactly *where* the
error the script complained about is. the name of the option should be
sufficient since option merging is rather rare, and won't merge doc
attributes anyway.
Documents the _module.args option, motivated by many usages in Flakes,
especially with the deprecation of extraArgs
(78ada83361)
The documentation rendering for this option had to be handled a bit
specially, since it's not declared in nixos/modules like all the other
NixOS options.
Co-Authored-By: pennae <github@quasiparticle.net>
Co-Authored-By: Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl>
Makes all options rendered in the manual throw an error if they don't
have a type specified.
This is a follow-up to #76184
Co-Authored-By: Silvan Mosberger <contact@infinisil.com>
this partially solves the problem of "missing description" warnings of the
options doc build being lost by nix build, at the cost of failing builds that
previously ran. an option to disable this behaviour is provided.
most modules can be evaluated for their documentation in a very
restricted environment that doesn't include all of nixpkgs. this
evaluation can then be cached and reused for subsequent builds, merging
only documentation that has changed into the cached set. since nixos
ships with a large number of modules of which only a few are used in any
given config this can save evaluation a huge percentage of nixos
options available in any given config.
in tests of this caching, despite having to copy most of nixos/, saves
about 80% of the time needed to build the system manual, or about two
second on the machine used for testing. build time for a full system
config shrank from 9.4s to 7.4s, while turning documentation off
entirely shortened the build to 7.1s.
