Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Feb 2007 18:49 UTC, submitted by Dolores Parker
"Klik is unique among software installation systems for Linux, in that each package installed through klik is self-contained, isolated from the rest of the operating system. Klik isn't a package management system; rather it's an application that lets you download and run software without installing it."
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Well, you have another option (in addition to source, which ideally will be packaged by the distro maintainers): use on the many "standalone" installers available.
Personally, I think that Klik is a more interesting solution, however you *do* have to install the Klik client first (if it's not preinstalled on your distro).
Make klik ship in the top five distros on DistroWatch
That would be a good thing, yes.
and include a right-click option for "permanent install" (converts the klikapp to your system's package format, and installs it)
That would be much more difficult...remember that Klik pacakges (unless I'm mistaken) use static libraries, so it would be difficult to "convert" the Kliked apps into packages. That's why it's not there to replace package managers, but rather to offer a way to ship additional apps for Linux PCs that have the Klik client installed.