nixos: hardware.pulseaudio → services.pulseaudio

[nbraud]

Rename the hardware.pulseaudio options to services.pulseaudio.

This is more consistent, considering:

• pulseaudio can be used without local audio hardware, nor is it necessary to use said hardware ;
• jack and pipewire are under services.

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
• Tested, as applicable:
  • nixosTests.pulseaudio
  • python3Packages.soundcard.tests
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• 25.05 Release Notes (or backporting 24.11 and 25.05 Release notes)
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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[nbraud]

Thanks for the swift review, @fpletz ! ❤️

[fpletz]

Such cleanups are always appreciated. 😸 I didn't merge right away because I wanted to let this sit for a few days to see if anybody else has any opinions on this. Shouldn't be that controversial, though, so no worries you merged this already. 👍

[nbraud]

I didn't merge right away because I wanted to let this sit for a few days

Ah, sorry, it was so uncontrovertial I thought we were both waiting on CI 😅 (in addition to at least 1 review, of course)

[khaneliman]

For some reason, mkRenamedOptionModule doesn't seem to handle mkForce priority on an option properly. So if someone had hardware.pulseaudio.enable = mkForce false they get an error. Just manually switching to services.pulseaudio fixed it for me.

Yes, I'm tracking master as I try to fix my flake from all the package failures :P

[nbraud]

For some reason, mkRenamedOptionModule doesn't seem to handle mkForce priority on an option properly.

Oy vey 😓
I opened #369491 but I'm not up for fixing this... at least until next year 😇

Yes, I'm tracking master as I try to fix my flake from all the package failures :P

And we thank you for stepping on all the rakes and reporting them ❤️