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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support
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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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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.
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.
Actually it's because of the licence
Absolutely. Rust is great. The license change is terrible.
It doesn't have to be. There are multiple sudo alternatives.