{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { }, confPath, confAttr ? null, check ? true
, newsReadIdsFile ? null }:

let
  inherit (pkgs.lib)
    concatMapStringsSep fileContents filter length optionalString removeSuffix
    replaceStrings splitString;

  env = import ../modules {
    configuration = if confAttr == "" || confAttr == null then
      confPath
    else
      (import confPath).${confAttr};
    pkgs = pkgs;
    check = check;
  };

  newsReadIds = if newsReadIdsFile == null then
    { }
  else
    let ids = splitString "\n" (fileContents newsReadIdsFile);
    in builtins.listToAttrs (map (id: {
      name = id;
      value = null;
    }) ids);

  newsIsRead = entry: builtins.hasAttr entry.id newsReadIds;

  newsFiltered = let pred = entry: entry.condition && !newsIsRead entry;
  in filter pred env.newsEntries;

  newsNumUnread = length newsFiltered;

  newsFileUnread = pkgs.writeText "news-unread.txt" (concatMapStringsSep "\n\n"
    (entry:
      let
        time =
          replaceStrings [ "T" ] [ " " ] (removeSuffix "+00:00" entry.time);
      in ''
        * ${time}

          ${replaceStrings [ "\n" ] [ "\n  " ] entry.message}
      '') newsFiltered);

  newsFileAll = pkgs.writeText "news-all.txt" (concatMapStringsSep "\n\n"
    (entry:
      let
        flag = if newsIsRead entry then "read" else "unread";
        time =
          replaceStrings [ "T" ] [ " " ] (removeSuffix "+00:00" entry.time);
      in ''
        * ${time} [${flag}]

          ${replaceStrings [ "\n" ] [ "\n  " ] entry.message}
      '') env.newsEntries);

  # File where each line corresponds to an unread news entry
  # identifier. If non-empty then the file ends in "\n".
  newsUnreadIdsFile = pkgs.writeText "news-unread-ids"
    (let text = concatMapStringsSep "\n" (entry: entry.id) newsFiltered;
    in text + optionalString (text != "") "\n");

  newsInfo = pkgs.writeText "news-info.sh" ''
    local newsNumUnread=${toString newsNumUnread}
    local newsDisplay="${env.newsDisplay}"
    local newsFileAll="${newsFileAll}"
    local newsFileUnread="${newsFileUnread}"
    local newsUnreadIdsFile="${newsUnreadIdsFile}"
  '';

in {
  inherit (env) activationPackage;
  inherit newsInfo;
}