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Conda 22.9.0 needs "sudo" as dependency

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: Hugo Buddelmeijer <hugo <at> buddelmeijer.nl>
Cc: bug-guix <at> gnu.org, 59771 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59771: Conda 22.9.0 needs "sudo" as dependency
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:47:22 +0100

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Hi Hugo,

Hugo Buddelmeijer 写道：
> As for why sudo is needed, I don't know. (Not sure I want to 
> know.)

Indeed, this sounds like something to report and fix upstream.

> $ guix shell -C conda sudo

Won't work, because sudo needs to be setuid — that is, provided by 
the OS.

On Guix Systems, that means /run/setuid-programs/sudo.  It cannot 
be run from the store, where setuid programmes are not allowed.

I tried --expose'ing /run/setuid-programs, but then sudo fails to 
find libsudo_util.so.0.  I didn't test further but don't expect 
that to suffice: sudo simply makes too many assumptions about the 
system, because of the special job it needs to do.

While it would be nice to figure out how to provide 
setuid-programs to a containers, Conda's pointless use of sudo is 
the bug here.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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