Comment 8 for bug 466088

su-to-root tries many different ways to get root, and respects local administrator's wishes. It can leverage sudo instead of plain su. Using it minimises dependency bloat for BiT (why depend on kdesudo when the administrator wants sux?) and mean that the two front ends are interchangable. The only reason for the karmic borkage is a missing dependency on

The common package has no launcher because it has no front end.