On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> If you need sudo, why not just apt-mark manual it? > > Does anyone know if the installer does this if the administrator doesn't set > > a root password? > > I believe so, but I don't know for sure, no. > > > There's an argument that sudo should refuse to uninstall itself (e.g. in > > a prerm script) if the root user doesn't have a password at all. That would > > be a neat trick. > > Indeed. > > Thinking of scenarios how `sudo` could end up marked as > automatically-installed, `aptitude why sudo` points out that it can get > auto-installed (via "recommends") if you install `dkms`, so maybe José > (or the installer) installed `dkms` long ago and then he recently > removed it?
I have it as a recommendation from "task-desktop" which I think is more likely, seeing how "dkms" itself is auto-removable on my system. Personally I think that if you get it installed from the debian installer by selecting that you don't want a root password, it should reasonably be installed without depending on something else.
