What's the difference between programs and home.packages?

[jjant]

I have some programs installed through programs, and others through home.packages:

{ pkgs, ... }:
{
  # ...
  home.packages = with pkgs; [
    jq
  ];
  programs = {
    fzf.enable = true;
  };
}

What's the difference between the two?

[ivandimitrov8080]

In my experience the packages array provides your environment with just the executable and programs provides some additional configuration and installation options by default and some that you can set as well.