Marius:

Sorry for the late reply.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:27:29 +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Packages are not allowed to write to /var, so to run pcscd on Guix you
> will have to symlink ~/.guix-profile/pcsc/drivers to
> /var/lib/pcsc/drivers manually, until we have a system service for
> pcscd. Can you try that?

That does indeed work.  Thanks.

Part of this for me is being unfamiliar with how everything in Guix
works, so I'm sure it'll make a lot more sense once I see what service
you come up with and observe its conventions.


>> Debian has the dependencies structured such that pcscd has ccid as an
>> input.
>
> This would work, but ccid is one of potentially many drivers for pcscd,
> so I'm reluctant to "hard code" it. It would not be possible to use
> other drivers if usbdropdir is set to the ccid output.

Okay, that sounds fine with me if there is a potential to be able to use
other drivers; I'm not familiar enough with pcscd to know.

Thanks for working on this!

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