Re: The klik project and Debian
Le Jeudi 19 Janvier 2006 08:48, Peter Samuelson a écrit :
> For those following along at home, it seems klik is some sort of
> gateway to install Debian packages on various non-Debian distributions.
> I imagine it's an ftp frontend to alien.
Well..
In fact, it is a scripted version of apt that can install package in a temp
directory.
The aim of it is to allow normal user to install app without write acess
to /usr etc..
One application for it is to test a beta release without the need to have it
definitly installed.
My own feeling about it is that the author is not very honnest with the debian
packaging work.
No where in his web page is written that in fact klik is a refactoring of
actual debian packages. Instead, it is at least implcitly told that it's all
the author's work... I feel it as being not honnest so I don't see why I
should really care..
> Do they solve any of these problems better than Debian does? Would
> Debian users derive any value from klik? How?
Hum... It allows non permanent installation which can be seen as good thing,
but, even if I'm not deeply aware of it, I can imagine that it needs to
install libraries and other things, and has the risk of puting a real mess in
your system...
Furthermore, the instalation script is not documented, and I had to go through
the source to know what it was doing..
> If not, I fail to see why Debian should care. We've got enough to
> worry about just making packages suitable for Debian - why go out of
> our way to help people who refuse to use Debian?
And to people who refuse to mention their use of debian's work...
Romain
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