On Thursday 14 of January 2016 16:05:39 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 14 January 2016 14:01:30 Sl�vek Banko wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 of January 2016 14:24:42 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> > > On 01/14/2016 04:53 AM, Greg Madden wrote:
> > > > It is not possible to give tdesudo as a necessary dependency for all.
> > > > Would
> > > >
> > > >> it be possible to consider only for the meta package on Ubuntu,
> > > >> where sudo is used by default.
> > >
> > > I think it would be better to NOT add a dependency.
> > > Perhaps we can add a "recommends" for tdesudo to tdebase or something
> > > similar. Then it is up to the user to decide whether to install tdesudo
> > > or not. Just my 2 cents.
> > >
> > >   Michele
> >
> > tdesudo-trinity is already as 'recommends' for metapackage
> > kubuntu-desktop-trinity == for ordinary Ubuntu users.
>
> How can remove these, to me, undesirable security risks, from 3.5.13.2?  I
> have tried, but they are so tied in with things dependant on them that
> simply removing is not an option.
>
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   sudo{p} sudo-trinity{p}
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1,919 kB will be freed.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  kde-core-trinity : Depends: sudo-trinity but it is not going to be
> installed. kdelibs4c2a-trinity : Depends: sudo but it is not going to be
> installed. gksu : Depends: sudo but it is not going to be installed.
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> aptitude then suggests removing 304 packages.
>
> I said "q".
>
> But is it possible to get the wretched things off my and my clients'
> machines less drastically??
>
> And please, please don't force it on us any more.  We don't all like it.
> Choice, please, choice.  Learn to use apt and its offspring and
> descendants, Gene.
>
> Lisi
>
> Lisi
>

Yes, just a few days ago, I also researched why kdelibs / tdelibs have sudo 
stated as 'depends' == is always installed and can not be uninstalled. And I 
see no compelling reason for this. Therefore, I propose to remove this 
dependency. Does anyone have a convincing argument against this?

-- 
Sl�vek