On Wed, 2023-02-15 at 08:31 +0100, Robin Candau wrote:- According to the way meta packages work (which is actually the reason why we made the switch), `sudo` will be pulled back to your system at each `base-devel` updates (which I assume shouldn't happen too frequently though)./etc/pacman.conf NoExtract = usr/bin/sudo
While that would technically work, the sudo package is composed of way more than just this binary file (`pacman -Ql sudo`). This is basically the same thing as what Polarian did initially (`doas rm /usr/bin/sudo`), which is only a partial removal of the `sudo` package; hence why I would not recommended it personally (specifically for people that "do not want sudo on their system").
You could eventually list all of the files installed by sudo via the `pacman -Ql sudo` output and put them in a "NoExtract" statement in the pacman.conf file but note that this list can change over time and that you'll still get the `sudo` package listed as installed (which can be an issue and a breakages source with certain packages depending how they're looking for sudo).
Or... you can simply run `pacman -Rdd sudo` at each `base-devel` update to completely/properly remove it (which, once again, should be fairly rare) 😁.
Note that, regarding the current `base-devel` situation, I do not
recommend any of those two "solutions", which should both be used
at your own risks.
-- Regards, Robin Candau
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