Comment by stabbles

sudo feels like a broken concept to me in general.

sudo make install, ok, great, some of the many operations you need to do requires privileges? Better give elevated privileges to all operations!

Even worse with GUI: enter your password to install. Now I have absolutely no clue what the scope of sudo is.

Of course I don't want to enter my password for all individual cp and mv operations, but if sudo had a better/smaller scope that'd be great.