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FS#27710 - [pacman] "sudo" not listed as optdepend in PKGBUILD
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Opened by Ruslan Nabioullin (rnabioullin) - Saturday, 24 December 2011, 22:22 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 24 December 2011, 23:58 GMT
Opened by Ruslan Nabioullin (rnabioullin) - Saturday, 24 December 2011, 22:22 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 24 December 2011, 23:58 GMT
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DetailsDescription:
The package "sudo" is not listed as an optional dependency in pacman 3.5.4-4 [core], nor in pacman 4.0.1-1 [testing] for both i686 and x86_64, even though the shell function "run_pacman" uses sudo (if available) in scripts/makepkg.sh.in. |
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Closed by Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 24 December 2011, 23:58 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't fix
Additional comments about closing: No-one pays attention to optdepends anyway...
Saturday, 24 December 2011, 23:58 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't fix
Additional comments about closing: No-one pays attention to optdepends anyway...
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) -
Saturday, 24 December 2011, 22:30 GMT
i believe is using su if sudo is not available when doing makepkg -i
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) -
Saturday, 24 December 2011, 22:37 GMT
Which makes sudo optional. Is this _really_ necessary? We don't list awk, grep, sed, or coreutils as dependencies of pacman.