Hey On 15/02/2023 09:53, Óscar García Amor wrote:
El mié, 15-02-2023 a las 01:59 +0000, Polarian escribió:
I do not want sudo on my system
This is an issue that I have thought about a lot because I see that there are many people (including me) who prefer to have a simple executable (doas) to become root instead of a whole system that could send another man (or woman) to the moon and the truth is that there is no simple solution as the Arch Linux package system is set up.
If our system had something like Debian (I'm not saying I like it, but it's a solution) with `update-alternatives`, you could choose `doas` as an alternative and uninstall `sudo`. Unfortunately, since we don't have it, there is no easy solution.
This has been discussed in pacman-devel, I am not sure if this is coming soon or planned.
A possible alternative would be to use `provides` in the packages, so that `doas` would provide `sudo` and then the user could choose what he wants. But this would cause `doas` and `sudo` to conflict with each other, since it would be necessary for `doas` to create a `/usr/bin/sudo -> doas` symbolic link so as not to break the compatibility of packages that require `sudo`.
This is not an option as devtools which requires sudo is not compatible with doas (for usage outside of the build chroot). If it was then sudo could become optional potentially. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools/-/merge_requests/131