On Thursday 14 of January 2016 22:16:01 deloptes wrote:
> Sl�vek Banko wrote:
> > My opinion is that if the user uses sudo, so either it was installed and
> > configured automatically (such as Ubuntu) or have it installed and set
> > himself deliberately. In such cases, tdelibs dependency on sudo is
> > unnecessary.
> >
> > But if sudo is installed "involuntarily", due to tdelibs dependency, sudo
> > is not configured and is therefore useless. In such case, tdelibs
> > dependency on sudo is unnecessary.
> >
> > Somehow I miss a case where this dependency is useful :)
>
> Yes, I agree - there is no dependency per default and if user takes tdesudo
> it would pull sudo as dependency, but otherwise I would leave it as it is.
> As it was already stated this is optional package on purpose.
>

The problem is that the current state is that the package tdelibs14-trinity on 
Debian and Ubuntu has *depends* on sudo == sudo is *always installed*, 
although it is not used and the user *cannot remove* it.

That's why I *do not want* to leave the current state unchanged.

> The question I had in this context was however, why after removing all
> desktop stuff debian suggests to purge sudo (autoremove), but I guess I'll
> ask in the debian user list.
>
> regards
>

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Sl�vek