summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/guix.texi
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guix.texi')
-rw-r--r--doc/guix.texi8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 08ffbc36d74..ca74afa3ce2 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