{
  deviceName ? null
, device ? (import ./devices/${deviceName} )
, liminix-config ? <liminix-config>
, nixpkgs ? <nixpkgs>
, borderVmConf ? ./bordervm.conf.nix
}:

let
  overlay = import ./overlay.nix;
  pkgs = import nixpkgs (device.system // {
    overlays = [ overlay ];
    config = {
      allowUnsupportedSystem = true; # mipsel
      permittedInsecurePackages = [
        "python-2.7.18.8" # kernel backports needs python <3
      ];
    };
  });

  evalModules = (import ./lib/eval-config.nix {
    inherit nixpkgs pkgs;
    inherit (pkgs) lib;
  });

  eval = evalModules {
    modules = [
      ({ lib, pkgs, ... }: {
        _module.args = {
          utils = import "${nixpkgs}/nixos/lib/utils.nix" {
            inherit lib pkgs;
            config.systemd.globalEnvironment = {};
          };
        };
        nixpkgs = {
          source = nixpkgs;
          overlays = [ overlay ];
          config.permittedInsecurePackages = [
            "python-2.7.18.8"
          ];
        };
      })
      device.module
      liminix-config
    ];
  };

  config = eval.config;

  borderVm = ((import <nixpkgs/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix>) {
    system = builtins.currentSystem;
    modules = [
      {
        nixpkgs.overlays = [
          (final: prev: {
            go-l2tp = final.callPackage ./pkgs/go-l2tp {};
            tufted = final.callPackage ./pkgs/tufted {};
          })
        ];
      }
      (import ./bordervm-configuration.nix)
      borderVmConf
    ];
  }).config.system;
in {
  inherit evalModules config;

  outputs = config.system.outputs // {
    default = config.system.outputs.${config.hardware.defaultOutput};
    optionsJson =
      let o = import ./doc/extract-options.nix {
            inherit pkgs eval;
            lib = pkgs.lib;
          };
      in pkgs.writeText "options.json" (builtins.toJSON o);
  };

  # this is just here as a convenience, so that we can get a
  # cross-compiling nix-shell for any package we're customizing
  inherit pkgs;

  deployEnv = pkgs.mkShell {
    packages = with pkgs.pkgsBuildBuild; [
      tufted
      min-copy-closure
    ];
  };

  buildEnv = pkgs.mkShell {
    packages = with pkgs.pkgsBuildBuild; [
      tufted
      routeros.routeros
      routeros.ros-exec-script
      run-liminix-vm
      borderVm.build.vm
      go-l2tp
      min-copy-closure
      fennelrepl
      lzma
      lua
    ];
  };
}