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| author | Alexander Bantyev <balsoft@balsoft.ru> | 2021-11-17 23:35:21 +0300 |
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| committer | Alexander Bantyev <balsoft@balsoft.ru> | 2023-02-10 20:14:06 +0400 |
| commit | 2384d360839e27edb3c928da858ec911415c8b4d (patch) | |
| tree | 95e5360fc7016b9d171f4bad320486eda168bbb1 /src/nix-env | |
| parent | a31d7d4e5e5eeeb7ca12ca798dc383045e5be1a1 (diff) | |
A setting to follow XDG Base Directory standard
XDG Base Directory is a standard for locations for storing various
files. Nix has a few files which seem to fit in the standard, but
currently use a custom location directly in the user's ~, polluting
it:
- ~/.nix-profile
- ~/.nix-defexpr
- ~/.nix-channels
This commit adds a config option (use-xdg-base-directories) to follow
the XDG spec and instead use the following locations:
- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/profile
- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/defexpr
- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/channels
If $XDG_STATE_HOME is not set, it is assumed to be ~/.local/state.
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tim Fenney <kodekata@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: pasqui23 <pasqui23@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Artturin <Artturin@artturin.com>
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <Ericson2314@Yahoo.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/nix-env')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/nix-env/nix-env.cc | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc b/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc index 406e548c0..0daf374de 100644 --- a/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc +++ b/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc @@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@ static void opSwitchProfile(Globals & globals, Strings opFlags, Strings opArgs) throw UsageError("exactly one argument expected"); Path profile = absPath(opArgs.front()); - Path profileLink = getHome() + "/.nix-profile"; + Path profileLink = settings.useXDGBaseDirectories ? createNixStateDir() + "/profile" : getHome() + "/.nix-profile"; switchLink(profileLink, profile); } @@ -1393,7 +1393,10 @@ static int main_nix_env(int argc, char * * argv) Globals globals; globals.instSource.type = srcUnknown; - globals.instSource.nixExprPath = getHome() + "/.nix-defexpr"; + { + Path nixExprPath = settings.useXDGBaseDirectories ? createNixStateDir() + "/defexpr" : getHome() + "/.nix-defexpr"; + globals.instSource.nixExprPath = nixExprPath; + } globals.instSource.systemFilter = "*"; if (!pathExists(globals.instSource.nixExprPath)) { |