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Populate $XDG_DATA_DIRS with appropriate folder from Nix profile

On non-NixOS systems, the default `nix` install does not populate the
`$XDG_DATA_DIRS`. This populates it and enables things like bash-completion
and `.desktop` file detection for `nix` profile installed packages.

Signed-off-by: Ana Hobden <operator@hoverbear.org>
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Ana Hobden 2023-09-15 10:49:30 -07:00 committed by Valentin Gagarin
parent 61d6fe059e
commit 867f894289
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@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ fi
export NIX_PROFILES="@localstatedir@/nix/profiles/default $NIX_LINK"
# Populate bash completions, .desktop files, etc
if [ -n "${XDG_DATA_DIRS-}" ]; then
# According to XDG spec the default is /usr/local/share:/usr/share, don't set something that prevents that default
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share:/usr/share:$NIX_LINK/share:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share"
else
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="$XDG_DATA_DIRS:$NIX_LINK/share:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share"
fi
# Set $NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE so that Nixpkgs applications like curl work.
if [ -n "${NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE:-}" ]; then
: # Allow users to override the NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE