Ever since I found out about run0 I’ve been using that. I don’t like having redundant software installed. Is it possible to safely remove sudo from an Arch Linux system? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

  • Gyroplast@pawb.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

    In principle, yes, although the optional base-devel group depends on sudo, as do hundreds of AUR packages, and yet other projects you install tend to just assume you have a sudo binary around. Removing sudo will not break your system, but lead to well-deserved anger towards people not declaring their dependencies. :)

    If you’re ready to deal with the occasional application or script croaking, and subsequently fixing it, you should be fine removing sudo. I would personally consider building a dummy package replacing sudo, including a simple run0 wrapper at /usr/bin/sudo, to have a clean and transparent replacement.

    • exu@feditown.comEnglish
      14·
      6 months ago

      Any AUR package implicitly requires base-devel, so there’s no requirement to list sudo explicitly.