Use polkit rather than sudo

[zefr0x]

When looking in some Linux distributions we can see that there are very few packages depending in sudo (nearly all of those optionally depending on it), while most of them especially GUI ones depends on polkit for running things as super user or another user.

In ArchLinux we have 19 packages depending in sudo while 89 depedning in polkit.

https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/sudo/

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/polkit/

In Gentoo we have 25 packages depending in sudo while 115 depedning in polkit.

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-admin/sudo/reverse-dependencies

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-auth/polkit/reverse-dependencies

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The main reasons are:

1. We have more control on privileges using polkit than sudo. We can restrict privileges to our needs, while using sudo we will get the privileges for every thing without restrictions.
2. Inside a desktop environment polkit is integrated to show a GUI prompt to enter your password, while sudo require a terminal to enter your password. (We will have the ability to run PINCE as a normal desktop application)

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Examples of applications using polkit:

• GameConqueror (Memory scanner like PINCE)
• GParted
• Flatpak
• Hyprland

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Related issues:

• doas support #112

[korcankaraokcu]

Yeah, polkit was mentioned in the past, it could be a nice addition. I'm not working actively on pince right now but I can try to implement it when I come back. Leaving the issue open for now