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Is there an advantage of using doas over sudo
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I just use doas because sudo has a bunch of features i don't care about or use, and doas does everything i need while being significantly smaller.
Does the size of a 6kb program really make that much of a difference?
Side note: If I'm reading this right (ignoring dependencies) sudo is 6kb while doas is 14kb.
6,054.0 kB, not 6 vs 14.0 kB
Ya know, I wish I could at least say something about being european and using commas instead of periods for decimal points, but I can't even say that. Still 6MB fully installed is nothing these days.
And here I am wondering what went so wrong with sudo that it needs 6 fucking mibibytes to work its simple magic.
Yeah, it's gonna take forever to download over my 14.4k baud modem.
STOP PICKING UP THE PHONE MOM!