On Application Setup, 2.6.2 ‘Name Service Switch’ says ’ When using Guix on a foreign distro, we strongly recommend that the system run the GNU C library’s name service cache daemon, nscd, which should be listening on the /var/run/nscd/socket socket.’
However, I am running Arch, where I couldn’t find any information about nscd, apart from ‘nscd was removed in glibc 2.38-4’ on the LDAP authentication wiki page.
Is nscd really necessary on foreign distros, or is the Guix manual page out of date? If it is necessary, are there any alternatives that may be available on Arch? I found nsncd, but I would prefer to use a known, stable solution.