{ depot, pkgs, lib, ... }:

let
  bins = depot.nix.getBins pkgs.stow [ "stow" ]
    // depot.nix.getBins pkgs.coreutils [ "mkdir" "ln" "printenv" "rm" ]
    // depot.nix.getBins pkgs.xe [ "xe" ]
    // depot.nix.getBins pkgs.lr [ "lr" ]
    // depot.nix.getBins pkgs.nix [ "nix-store" ]
  ;

  # run stow to populate the target directory with the given stow package, read from stowDir.
  # Bear in mind that `stowDirOriginPath` should always be semantically bound to the given `stowDir`, otherwise stow might become rather confused.
  runStow =
    {
      # “stow package” to stow (see manpage)
      # TODO: allow this function to un-stow multiple packages!
      stowPackage
    , # “target directory” to stow in (see manpage)
      targetDir
    , # The “stow directory” (see manpage), containing “stow packages” (see manpage)
      stowDir
    , # representative directory for the stowDir in the file system, against which stow will create relative links.
      # ATTN: this is always overwritten with the contents of `stowDir`! You shouldn’t re-use the same `stowDirOriginPath` for different `stowDir`s, otherwise there might be surprises.
      stowDirOriginPath
    ,
    }: depot.nix.writeExecline "stow-${stowPackage}" { } [
      # first, create a temporary stow directory to use as source
      # (stow will use it to determine the origin of files)
      "if"
      [ bins.mkdir "-p" stowDirOriginPath ]
      # remove old symlinks
      "if"
      [
        "pipeline"
        [
          bins.lr
          "-0"
          "-t"
          "depth == 1 && type == l"
          stowDirOriginPath
        ]
        bins.xe
        "-0"
        bins.rm
      ]
      # create an indirect gc root so our config is not cleaned under our asses by a garbage collect
      "if"
      [
        bins.nix-store
        "--realise"
        "--indirect"
        "--add-root"
        "${stowDirOriginPath}/.nix-stowdir-gc-root"
        stowDir
      ]
      # populate with new stow targets
      "if"
      [
        "elglob"
        "-w0"
        "stowPackages"
        "${stowDir}/*"
        bins.ln
        "--force"
        "-st"
        stowDirOriginPath
        "$stowPackages"
      ]
      # stow always looks for $HOME/.stowrc to read more arguments
      "export"
      "HOME"
      "/homeless-shelter"
      bins.stow
      # always run restow for now; this does more stat but will remove stale links
      "--restow"
      "--dir"
      stowDirOriginPath
      "--target"
      targetDir
      stowPackage
    ];

  # create a stow dir from a list of drv paths and a stow package name.
  makeStowDir =
    (with depot.nix.yants;
    defun
      [
        (list (struct {
          originalDir = drv;
          stowPackage = string;
        }))
        drv
      ])
      (dirs:
        depot.nix.runExecline "make-stow-dir"
          {
            stdin = lib.pipe dirs [
              (map depot.users.Profpatsch.netencode.gen.dwim)
              depot.users.Profpatsch.netstring.toNetstringList
            ];
          } [
          "importas"
          "out"
          "out"
          "if"
          [ bins.mkdir "-p" "$out" ]
          "forstdin"
          "-d"
          ""
          "-o"
          "0"
          "line"
          "pipeline"
          [
            depot.users.Profpatsch.execline.print-one-env
            "line"
          ]
          depot.users.Profpatsch.netencode.record-splice-env
          "importas"
          "-ui"
          "originalDir"
          "originalDir"
          "importas"
          "-ui"
          "stowPackage"
          "stowPackage"
          bins.ln
          "-sT"
          "$originalDir"
          "\${out}/\${stowPackage}"
        ]);

  # this is a dumb way of generating a pure list of packages from a depot namespace.
  readTreeNamespaceDrvs = namespace:
    lib.pipe namespace [
      (lib.filterAttrs (_: v: lib.isDerivation v))
      (lib.mapAttrsToList (k: v: {
        name = k;
        drv = v;
      }))
    ];

  scriptsStow =
    lib.pipe { } [
      (_: makeStowDir [{
        stowPackage = "scripts";
        originalDir = pkgs.linkFarm "scripts-farm"
          ([
            {
              name = "scripts/ytextr";
              path = depot.users.Profpatsch.ytextr;
            }
            {
              name = "scripts/lorri-wait-for-eval";
              path = depot.users.Profpatsch.lorri-wait-for-eval;
            }
            {
              name = "scripts/lw";
              path = depot.users.Profpatsch.lorri-wait-for-eval;
            }

          ]
          ++
          (lib.pipe depot.users.Profpatsch.aliases [
            readTreeNamespaceDrvs
            (map ({ name, drv }: {
              name = "scripts/${name}";
              path = drv;
            }))
          ]));
      }])
      (d: runStow {
        stowDir = d;
        stowPackage = "scripts";
        targetDir = "/home/philip";
        stowDirOriginPath = "/home/philip/.local/share/nix-home/stow-origin";
      })
    ];



  terminalEmulatorStow =
    lib.pipe { } [
      (_: makeStowDir [{
        stowPackage = "terminal-emulator";
        originalDir = pkgs.linkFarm "terminal-emulator-farm"
          ([
            {
              name = "bin/terminal-emulator";
              path = depot.users.Profpatsch.alacritty;
            }
          ]);

      }])
      (d: runStow {
        stowDir = d;
        stowPackage = "terminal-emulator";
        targetDir = "/home/philip";
        # TODO: this should only be done once, in a single runStow instead of multiple
        stowDirOriginPath = "/home/philip/.local/share/nix-home/stow-origin-terminal-emulator";
      })
    ];

in

# TODO: run multiple stows with runStow?
  # TODO: temp setup
depot.nix.writeExecline "nix-home" { } [
  "if"
  [ scriptsStow ]
  terminalEmulatorStow
]