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

Jonas Große Sundrup jonas-aml at letopolis.de
Mon Jul 27 08:53:59 UTC 2015


You could solve it by configuring sudo to use the user's password for
maintenance, but I simply prefer using the root-password for system
related stuff and using sudo soley to whitelist certain commands that
I'd like to run without entering a password, to have a consistent
separation of maintenance-related tasks like package management and
day-to-day-tasks like connecting to a network.

Therefore the idea of giving the user the option to choose the super
user binary to allow flexibility in that regard.


  ~ Jonas


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