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 > -- Sl�vek