FWIW, according to the iso manifest[1], gksu and libgksu2-0 are both on 
the CD, they just don't get installed by default.

It's still worth asking the desktop team, of course, however, it looks 
to me like the making gksu a recommends won't add anything new to the ISO.

IIRC, using pkexec was just a nightmare. I believe the only option was 
either prompt for password every time we need to run a root command or 
prompt once and never see one again for the entire user session, which 
arguably is a security problem.

[1] http://releases.ubuntu.com/raring/ubuntu-13.04-desktop-
amd64.manifest




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