9 commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
fricklerhandwerk	38bd1cc9bc	split configuration file page into sections ... this makes it easier to scan for specific information, such as the format of command line flags	2023-06-20 12:11:01 +02:00
fricklerhandwerk	f2b54e3b71	add links to environment variables documentation	2023-06-20 12:11:01 +02:00
Jan Tojnar	e96faadcd6	Fix XDG_CONFIG_DIRS fallback ... According to XDG Base Directory Specification, it should fall back to /etc/xdg when the env var is not present.	2021-11-17 14:31:15 +01:00
Jan Tojnar	e5d4c2235f	docs: Correct fallback user config path ... This is in line with XDG Base Directory Specification, where ~/.config is supposed to be used when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset. It also better matches the reality, where ~/.config/nix.conf does not seem to be used.	2021-11-04 11:41:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra	ff4dea63c9	Generalize extra-* settings ... This removes the extra-substituters and extra-sandbox-paths settings and instead makes every array setting extensible by setting "extra-<name> = <value>" in the configuration file or passing "--<name> <value>" on the command line.	2020-10-29 18:17:39 +01:00
Josef Kemetmüller	7f60f48e1a	Fix the docs about the new NIX_CONFIG env var ... This was accidentally documented as NIX_OPTIONS.	2020-10-21 17:04:36 +02:00
Christian Kampka	461cf2b856	Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides	2020-10-21 13:41:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra	58dadf2954	Remove stray 'Title:' from the manual ... Closes #4096.	2020-10-08 17:30:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra	c8fa39324a	Generate the nix.conf docs from the source code ... This means we don't have two (divergent) sets of option descriptions anymore.	2020-08-19 18:28:04 +02:00