[pacman-dev] Patch-proposal for makepkg: be able to use su for installations even if sudo is installed

[Johannes Löthberg]

On 26/07, Jonas Große Sundrup wrote:
>Hi,
>
>at the moment makepkg will use sudo to obtain root privileges if it is
>installed, otherwise it will use su.
>This means that if sudo is configured to only allow special commands
>(and none of those is "pacman"), "makepkg -i" will fail to install the
>built package. Same goes for installing dependencies with "makepkg -s".
>
>The patch appended introduces a new variable into makepkg.conf named
>SUPER_USER_BINARY, which is set to "sudo" by default. With it being
>"sudo" makepkg will behave as it does currently, so there should be no
>breakages with updates. If not set to sudo, makepkg will ignore an
>installed sudo and use su right away.
>

If the user has access to the root password, why is their sudo commands 
so limited in the first place?

-- 
Sincerely,
  Johannes Löthberg
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