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While it's perfectly possible today to completely rely on mkosi for building and testing systemd, to get code completion and other IDE niceties to work properly, it's still necessary to build systemd locally. Recently, mkosi gained the ability to allow external programs to communicate with the build script. We can use this feature to run the clangd language server in the mkosi build image via a custom build script to provide IDE features in editors without requiring developers to build systemd on the host or install any of systemd's build dependencies locally. This commit adds the necessary information on how to set this up to HACKING.md.
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