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Merge pull request #5588 from tweag/balsoft/xdg

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Follow XDG Base Directory standard
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Théophane Hufschmitt 2023-02-10 18:05:50 +01:00 • committed by GitHub
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@ -945,6 +945,27 @@ public:
resolves to a different location from that of the build machine. You
can enable this setting if you are sure you're not going to do that.
)"};
Setting<bool> useXDGBaseDirectories{
this, false, "use-xdg-base-directories",
R"(
If set to `true`, Nix will conform to the [XDG Base Directory Specification] for files in `$HOME`.
The environment variables used to implement this are documented in the [Environment Variables section](@docroot@/installation/env-variables.md).
[XDG Base Directory Specification]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
> **Warning**
> This changes the location of some well-known symlinks that Nix creates, which might break tools that rely on the old, non-XDG-conformant locations.
In particular, the following locations change:
| Old | New |
|-------------------|--------------------------------|
| `~/.nix-profile` | `$XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/profile` |
| `~/.nix-defexpr` | `$XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/defexpr` |
| `~/.nix-channels` | `$XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/channels` |
)"
};
};