refactor(nix): more package/module renames/modernization#191
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I used to think of nixos-cli as a "system service", rather than as a program conceptually, but this doesn't really make sense, to be frank.
This has been a long time coming; the project has been referred to with a -cli prefix for over a year now, so soft-deprecate the package aliases in case anyone is still using them, and move them over to the kebab-case with the nixos-cli prefix if needed.
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This PR continues the renaming efforts done in #183, and renames the entire
services.nixos-climodule toprograms.nixos-cliinstead, since thenixos-cliprogram itself isn't really a system service, nor does it have one to speak of.It also renames the
configoption tosettings, sinceconfigis usually designated for raw configuration, andsettingsfor structured Nix config, as pernixpkgsconventions.Additionally, it completes the rename of the actual packages from bare
nixos(which was the name of the binary and original project, but wasn't very descriptive), tonixos-cliandnixos-cli-legacy, and wraps thenixos-clipackage with the latest Nix as a runtime dependency, as to prevent Nix from bringing in packages for the wrong platform and so that more recent Nix versions can be relied on.