[arch-dev-public] request: move sudo to base-devel

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 09:33:19 EDT 2007


2007/10/23, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>:
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: arch-dev-public-bounces at archlinux.org [mailto:arch-dev-public-
> > bounces at archlinux.org] Namens Dan McGee
> > Verzonden: dinsdag 23 oktober 2007 14:04
> > Aan: Public mailing list for ArchLinux development
> > Onderwerp: Re: [arch-dev-public] request: move sudo to base-devel
> >
> > On 10/23/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Right now sudo is in Extra.
> > > I request to move it to Core/base-devel because it is needed by
> > > makepkg to be used by user (which is the right way).
> >
> > Seems reasonable to me, +1 as long as it doesn't pull in other deps
> > and has maintainer(s).
> >
> > -Dan
>
> +1 here, as it's also in FreeBSD and OpenBSD base (and ubuntu as they don't
> have a root account which can be logged in :P). One sidenote though, sudo is
> not development. Is base-devel the only group/category this can go in?

I thought from pacman's side. fakeroot is not strict devel package too.
When user wants to make packages - he installs base-devel - and all
he(she?) needs for useable makepkg is installed.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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