Ever since I found out about run0 I’ve been using that. I don’t like having redundant software installed. Is it possible to safely remove sudo from an Arch Linux system? Sorry if this is a stupid question.
In principle, yes, although the optional
base-develgroup depends onsudo, as do hundreds of AUR packages, and yet other projects you install tend to just assume you have asudobinary around. Removing sudo will not break your system, but lead to well-deserved anger towards people not declaring their dependencies. :)If you’re ready to deal with the occasional application or script croaking, and subsequently fixing it, you should be fine removing sudo. I would personally consider building a dummy package replacing sudo, including a simple run0 wrapper at
/usr/bin/sudo, to have a clean and transparent replacement.Any AUR package implicitly requires
base-devel, so there’s no requirement to list sudo explicitly.
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Honestly I like that it’s part of SystemD. I need SystemD for Arch but I don’t need sudo. Also, the sudo logo is scary as fuck.
OH GOD THAT SMILE WILL HAUNT MY NIGHTMARES 😱 😱 😱
I’m on Artix and I have removed sudo after installing doas. I do have a symlink
sudo -> /usr/bin/doasin/usr/bin. Have had this configuration for about a year, nothing broke.I’m a systemD fan myself but I think it’s cool that people still use other innit systems. Is there any issues with gaming on Artix? I used it once but didn’t really try gaming. I really liked using Void Linux on an old netbook.
Since it doesn’t come installed by default on a fresh system, my guess would be that you won’t break anything fundamental, but this is pure speculation.
My thoughts exactly. My bare bones installation didn’t come with one. I had to specifically install it myself.
You can also just use the root user and not bother with any of the sudo nonsense.
