Hello, Efraim Flashner skribis: > I found a man page online from freedesktop.org¹, it seems that it's been > aborbed by systemd at some point. OK. > It looks like some build systems can try to get information from it > during building if they have distro-specific things to do. That is precisely the kind of bad practice that I’d rather not encourage. :-) > The only software that I know of that we have that would use it would > be inxi. guix environment --ad-hoc inxi-minimal -- inxi -S "Distro: > Unknown" isn't that big of a deal, and we could just submit a patch > upstream if we really wanted it fixed. It has other problems: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix environment -C --ad-hoc inxi-minimal -- inxi -S sh: tty: command not found Can't exec "ps": No such file or directory at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 17535. Use of uninitialized value in split at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 17535. Can't exec "ps": No such file or directory at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 3052. Use of uninitialized value in split at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 3052. Can't exec "ps": No such file or directory at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 17535. Use of uninitialized value in split at /gnu/store/4x20lf98vwj357zcj6il8zka2d8mr9h0-inxi-minimal-3.0.20-1/bin/.inxi-real line 17535. 12System: 12Host ribbon 12Kernel 4.20.3-gnu x86_64 12bits 64 12Console N/A 12Distro unknown --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > That said, I'm happy enough to plop it in my own os-config and drop the > patch. OK, let’s take that route. That said, I’m clearly opinionated ;-), but if that turns out to be a hindrance to many, we can revisit this issue. Thanks, Ludo’.