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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (11 children)

sudo-rs might never be adopted as a default in many distros precisely because it's in rust. or rust adoption gets better and better to the point that it runs everywhere.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Actually it's because of the licence

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I would love sudo-rs to be GPL but that's orthogonal to the fact of it being bundled in distros. It's still FOSS

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Rust shouldn't be an issue IMO. Any rust libraries used are statically linked, only the good ol' C and C++ (if any) libraries it depends on would have to be dependencies to the package. So it should theoretically offer fewer issues with dependencies than the original sudo.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    What I was saying was: Rust doesn't support all the targets C does

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    Technically yes, but all the common ones are covered. I don't think any mainstream distros support anything so exotic that Rust doesn't compile for it. Gentoo supports Alpha and HPPA which haven't been around since the 90s, those are the only architectures that Gentoo has sudo packages for, that Rust doesn't support. Your run of the mill distros don't support anything this exotic. Common everyday architectures we see all the time in our daily lives like SPARC, PowerPC or RISC-V are supported.

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