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This is needed to avoid this https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/13774 when we go back to making our subproject directory `src`.
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# Single-User Mode
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In single-user mode, all Nix operations that access the database in
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`prefix/var/nix/db` or modify the Nix store in `prefix/store` must be
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performed under the user ID that owns those directories. This is
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typically root. (If you install from RPM packages, that’s in fact the
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default ownership.) However, on single-user machines, it is often
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convenient to `chown` those directories to your normal user account so
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that you don’t have to `su` to root all the time.
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