Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable
> Is it realistic to hope you to remember such many little things like this
> each time you setup some system ? How many headless systems usually work
> without sudo ?
Debian tries to be flexible, so it tries not to impose any
particular set of packages. It has its pros and cons, inevitably.
I thing given the way things are, the best Debian could do is to try and
make sure `sudo` is not accidentally installed "automatically", which
seems to be what happened for you.
So it would help if you could remember *how* you installed `sudo`?
Then we could try and see if something can be changed such that next
time someone does something similar, `sudo` is either not installed or
marked as manually-installed.
> I'm worked a whole life making software and I've always acted to ease my
> users' life... but may be just me.
There are tensions at play for an OS like Debian which strives to be
universal and thus has to accommodate a wide variety of situations.
What makes life easier for one group can make it harder for another.
> Thanks for the response; I'll try to remember to apt-mark sudo as manual
> installed next time.
Next time you need `apt-mark manual`, try and think whether Debian could
have "guessed" that this package (whether it's `sudo` or any other)
should be marked as manually-installed, or try and think how Debian
could have encouraged some other set of actions which would have resulted in
the same result without you having to manually run `apt-mark manual`.
[ And then file a bug-report/enhancement-request. ]
Stefan
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