Re: nscd on Foreign Distro

[kiasoc5]

Hi Andres,

On 2023-10-09 02:37, Andres Moreno wrote:
> I installed Guix on Fedora 38 using a package in the COPR Fedora
> repository. Everything seems to be working great except that I found 
> out
> that nscd is deprecated for Fedora. The manual states that this service
> needs to be enabled or else the system might crash. Is this still an 
> issue?
>
> I did some web searches; messages posted around the time of the Fedora
> deprecation of nscd did not point a clear path forward.
>
> Should I worry?

n=1, but I've run Guix on Arch Linux without nscd for several months and 
had no apparent issues.

In fact, nscd was recently removed from Arch Linux, so alternatives to 
nscd should be mentioned if something like nscd is still required. For 
example I believe sssd was floated as a nscd replacement at some point.