Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

Thanks a lot for testing! :)

> 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.

I haven't started working on this yet, but the idea is to provide a list
of drivers in the service definition (with ccid as default), and then
symlink each of them to the driver directory before starting pcscd.