Disable allowUnfree by default

Fixes #2134.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix b/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix
index 4b8c7354a7ec..e082b174454e 100644
--- a/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix
+++ b/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix
@@ -26,10 +26,15 @@ rec {
 
   # These are the extra arguments passed to every module.  In
   # particular, Nixpkgs is passed through the "pkgs" argument.
+  # FIXME: we enable config.allowUnfree to make packages like
+  # nvidia-x11 available. This isn't a problem because if the user has
+  # ‘nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = false’, then evaluation will fail on
+  # the 64-bit package anyway. However, it would be cleaner to respect
+  # nixpkgs.config here.
   extraArgs = extraArgs_ // {
     inherit pkgs modules baseModules;
     modulesPath = ../modules;
-    pkgs_i686 = import ./nixpkgs.nix { system = "i686-linux"; };
+    pkgs_i686 = import ./nixpkgs.nix { system = "i686-linux"; config.allowUnfree = true; };
     utils = import ./utils.nix pkgs;
   };