[GNUnet-developers] changes to installing setuid files

[ng0]

Hi,

yesterday I chatted with amatus about the fact that we use
sudo in the Makefiles, optionally, and that this can be avoided.
We have started doing this in 2011 according to logs in the
Makefiles + helper shell scripts.
There haven't been much commits to this facility, which makes
me assume that changes to improve this would be okay.

So before
I go ahead and make changes to this, is there any good reason
why we use this instead of other, more widely used tools for
this job?