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| author | Lars Bilke <lars.bilke@ufz.de> | 2024-12-18 10:51:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2024-12-18 13:22:48 +0100 |
| commit | 27a371ff947dba5afa8361669f5b8c648f15f1ba (patch) | |
| tree | f73188b884078cf320faafa8e5be7a47d54a971d /doc | |
| parent | 7824f6295391983ab65e1449811fb1b4ef781487 (diff) | |
doc: Add note on nsncd as a replacement for nscd.
* doc/guix.texi Add note on nsncd in Name Service Switch section.
Change-Id: Ib804ab2e7d83d13f8f81d875f957eae2304eb232
Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 08ffbc36d7..ca74afa3ce 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1824,6 +1824,14 @@ this binary incompatibility problem because those @code{libnss_*.so} files are loaded in the @command{nscd} process, not in applications themselves. +@cindex nsncd, replacement for nscd +Note that @command{nscd} is no longer provided on some GNU/Linux +distros, such as Arch Linux (as of Dec. 2024). @command{nsncd} can be +used as a drop-in-replacement. See +@uref{https://github.com/twosigma/nsncd, the nsncd repository} and +@uref{https://flokli.de/posts/2022-11-18-nsncd/, this blog post} for +more information. + @subsection X11 Fonts @cindex fonts |