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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support
(www.theregister.com)
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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.
Actually it's because of the licence
Absolutely. Rust is great. The license change is terrible.
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
Not good enough, it is a critical piece of software & it HAS to be copyleft
Distros don't take that into account though
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.
What I was saying was: Rust doesn't support all the targets C does
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.
It doesn't have to be. There are multiple sudo alternatives.
Yeah, but the quote is about sudo-rs
The article talks about sudo alternatives in general. It only gave sudo-rs as an example.