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authorChristian Kampka <christian@kampka.net>2020-10-19 23:08:50 +0200
committerChristian Kampka <christian@kampka.net>2020-10-21 13:41:26 +0200
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Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides
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@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ By default Nix reads settings from the following places:
and `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`. If these are unset, it will look in
`$HOME/.config/nix.conf`.
+ - If `NIX_OPTIONS` is set, its contents is treated as the contents of
+ a configuration file.
+
The configuration files consist of `name =
value` pairs, one per line. Other files can be included with a line like
`include