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. -- BackInTime karmic package missing depends on menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/466088 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. Status in Back In Time: Invalid Status in “backintime” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The Back In Time (root) launcher as shipped in karmic calls the program su-to-root. This program is not installed on a base Ubuntu machine, but menu (The package containing su-to-root) is not listed as a dependency. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~bit-team Post to : bit-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~bit-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
