Move the default profiles to the user’s home

Rather than using `/nix/var/nix/{profiles,gcroots}/per-user/`, put the user
profiles and gcroots under `$XDG_DATA_DIR/nix/{profiles,gcroots}`.

This means that the daemon no longer needs to manage these paths itself
(they are fully handled client-side). In particular, it doesn’t have to
`chown` them anymore (removing one need for root).

This does change the layout of the gc-roots created by nix-env, and is
likely to break some stuff, so I’m not sure how to properly handle that.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/nix-channel/nix-channel.cc b/src/nix-channel/nix-channel.cc
index cf52b03b4..263d85eea 100755
--- a/src/nix-channel/nix-channel.cc
+++ b/src/nix-channel/nix-channel.cc
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
+#include "profiles.hh"
 #include "shared.hh"
 #include "globals.hh"
 #include "filetransfer.hh"
 #include "store-api.hh"
 #include "legacy.hh"
 #include "fetchers.hh"
+#include "util.hh"
 
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <regex>
@@ -166,7 +168,7 @@ static int main_nix_channel(int argc, char ** argv)
         nixDefExpr = home + "/.nix-defexpr";
 
         // Figure out the name of the channels profile.
-        profile = fmt("%s/profiles/per-user/%s/channels", settings.nixStateDir, getUserName());
+        profile = profilesDir() + "/channels";
 
         enum {
             cNone,