Comment 6 for bug 217138

Indeed, I don't really agree with the recovery rationale for one reason: if the person is doing recovery, they are savy enough to first make a LiveUSB with persistent memory and install whatever will be needed for that recovery.

But maybe kubuntu team can reconsider the previous decision with the argument that encrypted storage media has become a still-growing widespread trend and it is worth dropping 0.5 MB of something else in favor of cryptsetup.