As explained in bug 425156, gksu is dead and should be replaced by direct polkit usage when needed (as was done with gedit). But, with this exact package, I don't fully understand why the need of gksu, I have also checked other distributions and looks like none of them are using any system to gain root privileges Thanks
gedit -> gparted
According to the manpage Custom Scripts If you need to run any custom commands before or after connecting to or disconnecting from a network, Wicd supports this; however, you will need to have a graphical sudo helper installed (currently supported are kdesu, gksu, and ktsuss). What's the best course of action given that we want to support this feature? We could drop the dependency on graphical sudo and make an einfo to explain that the user should install one of the three if she wants to use custom scripts. Note that wicd is also kind of dead (at least stalled), so that it is unexpected that upstream will do something about this.
The idea would be to migrate from gksu to pkexec usage, for that, we will need to create a polkit rule similar to org.gentoo.pkexec.gparted.policy (you can see it in gparted FILESDIR). In summary, it tells polkit the binary to allow to run, that X11 should be allowed to it and a bit more. In the case of gparted, we also provide a script called "gparted-pkexec" that runs: #!/bin/sh pkexec "/usr/sbin/gparted" "$@" and we change the desktop file to call that script instead of "gksu gparted"
I agree that this would be nice, but I don't have the time to implement this. Patches are welcome.
Will try to review when I have time :)
Maybe one option is to drop gksu as provider and rely on kdesu and co :/
[master 02a038f] net-misc/wicd: gksu is dead for ages and vulnerable, drop optional dep 1 file changed, 151 insertions(+) create mode 100644 net-misc/wicd/wicd-1.7.4-r2.ebuild
