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Draft: main/postmarketos-base: allow choosing between sudo and doas

Administrator requested to merge doas into master

Add a virtual postmarketos-root package that allows choosing between sudo and doas for getting root access. postmarketos-root-doas can be added to the "extra packages" prompt in pmbootstrap init to install it instead of sudo.

Together with a related pmbootstrap change (https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/merge_requests/2132) there will be a nice configuration prompt in pmbootstrap init for these virtual packages:

$ pmbootstrap init
[...]
Available providers for postmarketos-root (2):
 * sudo: Use sudo to run root commands (**default**)
 * doas: Use doas (minimal replacement for sudo) to run root commands
         (Note: Does not support all functionality of sudo)
Provider [default]: ...

Note: "sudo" is the default provider (highest provider_priority), which means all existing installations will keep "sudo" when upgrading. This also applies when merging this MR before the pmbootstrap MR is merged.

Therefore this only mostly Closes #1121 (closed). The default is still sudo but it's possible to select doas alternatively.

Note that I don't care too much about sudo vs doas myself, this is just a proof of concept that I made for the "provider selection" in pmbootstrap that I want to use for a configuration prompt for the MSM8916-based devices (see https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/merge_requests/2132).

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