[Nix-dev] writing a muttrc configuration file

[stewart mackenzie]

Hendrik, thanks!
On 29 May 2015 18:53, "Hendrik Bunke" <bunke.hendrik at gmail.com> wrote:

> --On 2015-05-29 18:33, stewart mackenzie wrote:
> > Okay yes it wrote to /nix/store, so this approach won't work as Mutt
> > won't see /nix/store/kl3v8gvzk4c3q7zfjcjpm4kb3c248ahl-muttrc/root
> >
> > So it would be great to open Mutt and it automatically opens to the
> > correct location: /var/spool/mail/root
> > and not /var/mail/root
> >
> > How do I do this?
>
> You can override configureFlags with pkg.lib.overrideDerivation.
> configure flag should be (I guess)
> --with-mail-path="/var/spool/mail"
>
> See the docs here:
>
> http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/sec-package-management.html#sec-customising-packages
>
> regards
> hendrik
>
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