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Configuration settings can now refer to
files with paths relative to the file they're written in or relative to your
home directory (with ~/).
This makes settings like
repl-overlays and
secret-key-files
much easier to set, especially if you'd like to refer to files in an existing
dotfiles repo cloned into your home directory.
If you put repl-overlays = repl.nix in your ~/.config/nix/nix.conf, it'll
load ~/.config/nix/repl.nix. Similarly, you can set repl-overlays = ~/.dotfiles/repl.nix to load a file relative to your home directory.
Configuration files can also
include paths relative to
your home directory.
Only user configuration files (like $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nix/nix.conf or the
files listed in $NIX_USER_CONF_FILES) can use tilde paths relative to your
home directory. Configuration listed in the $NIX_CONFIG environment variable
may not use relative paths.