11/15: doc: Add note on nsncd as a replacement for nscd.

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commit 27a371ff947dba5afa8361669f5b8c648f15f1ba
Author: Lars Bilke <lars.bilke@ufz.de>
AuthorDate: Wed Dec 18 10:51:46 2024 +0100

    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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 doc/guix.texi | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

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