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Théophane Hufschmitt a5919f4754 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.
2023-01-17 14:17:28 +01:00
.github Bump zeebe-io/backport-action from 0.0.9 to 1.0.1 2022-12-26 22:00:45 +00:00
config Run autoupdate 2021-06-01 11:42:38 +02:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc/manual Release notes 2023-01-17 13:23:31 +01:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers state priorities in triaging and discussion process 2023-01-12 19:33:41 +01:00
misc Merge pull request #6645 from Artturin/limitinfinity 2022-12-09 13:36:13 +01:00
mk Make ./mk/run-test.sh work by itself; add mk/debug-test.sh 2022-12-21 02:28:33 -05:00
perl Remove std::string alias (for real this time) 2022-02-25 16:13:02 +01:00
scripts Fix Nix installation on older versions of fish 2023-01-03 21:14:01 +01:00
src Move the default profiles to the user’s home 2023-01-17 14:17:28 +01:00
tests Move the default profiles to the user’s home 2023-01-17 14:17:28 +01:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Revert local settings merged by error 2022-10-22 23:41:05 +02:00
.version .version: Add newline 2022-12-07 13:39:10 +01:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac configure.ac: don't clobber CFLAGS=/CXXFLAGS= and allow users to pass in custom flags 2022-12-17 20:42:03 +00:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00
docker.nix Add nobody user/group to Nix docker image 2022-11-29 10:01:46 +00:00
flake.lock flake.lock: Update 2022-12-08 17:09:50 +01:00
flake.nix manual: Check links 2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
local.mk Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Makefile Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-05-25 11:55:13 +00:00
Makefile.config.in Embed the sandbox shell into the statically linked 'nix' binary 2022-06-23 04:08:28 +02:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md Fix link to hacking doc 2022-07-30 09:12:50 -07:00
shell.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.