[2019-03-11 11:23] Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> Dmitry Bogatov writes ("Bug#924269: chiark-really: providing bin:sudo"):
> > Package: chiark-really
> > Version: 6.0.3
> > Severity: wishlist
> ...
> > please consider making chiark-really drop-in replacement for sudo. For
> > my own purposes,
> > alias sudo='PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin /usr/sbin/really'
> > is perfectly fine, but some packages pull dependency on bin:sudo
> > (ubuntu-dev-tools, as example). What about making
> >
> > bin:really-sudo, which provides `sudo` wrapper and Conflicts+Provides sudo?
>
> What an interesting idea.
>
> I definitely don't want to make this always be the case. In general I
> really hate the way that build scripts all over the universe think
> they are allowed to make themselves root, and the fact that I have no
> sudo is then very useful: I get some message about sudo not found,
> usually followed by a pile of random junk as the script blunders on
> anyway.
>
> I wonder if maybe
> ln -s /usr/sbin/really /usr/local/sbin/sudo
> would suffice for your use case?
No, since problem is with debian packages relationships. And, by the
way, /sbin/really does not set PATH. Note, that I do not propose
complicating bin:chiark-really, I propose separate binary package with
tiny wrapper.
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