[Nix-dev] Re: changine configure --prefix=... doesn't move /nix/var

[Erick Tryzelaar]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Erick Tryzelaar
<idadesub at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Is there a reason why this has been done?
>

Ah, I get it. You're using --prefix to specify where all the user
libraries go, but you're using /nix to store the data. I guess it
might be handy mentioning that you need to specify
--with-store-dir=... and --localstatedir=... if you want to move the
/nix directory completely.