Ludovic Courtès writes: >> 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. :-) Build systems doing this is bad, of course, but if this was a script that tried to be helpful by telling the user what commands to run to install dependencies I think it could be helpful. (I have a vague memory of a project that tried to figure out how to detect if the script is running on a Guix system by checking for /run/current-system and the like.) /etc/os-release would be a friendlier indicator than /run/current-system. -- Ricardo