[Nix-dev] Handling NSS modules

[Michael Raskin]

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Better solution would be to add some directory switching support to
>> upstream (say, via response to a special request to Avahi), but it is
>> probably too much work.
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand.
> 
> Overall, it looks purely like a NixOS issue, not something NSS module
> implementors should care about.
I'd say that allowing loading plugin libraries from a directory that can 
be changed in runtime is not a bad idea for any pluggable architecture 
anyway. But upstream maintainers may still reject it for no reason..