Alextreme, I also thought about apt-get and synaptic. But Knoppix ain't plain debian...

klik is planned to be extremely flexible, i. e. it currently can handle (by manually adopting more or less standardized "klik recipe" templates the format of which I will be refining) Shell-, KDE-, Java-, and even Windows-apps (using WINE, for an example try BibEdit from http://klik.berlios.de/). Windows apps will never(?) appear in apt-get... so do others...

klik is designed as a central page with a database and using server-side (PHP) includes for reusing code that occurs in several "klik recipes". I want to make possible for users to contribute their "recipes". One "recipe" is always built against one specific Knoppix release, so we *need* community effort for building recipes.

I want to make sure each "recipe" is checked and running flawless at least with one Knoppix release. If we use apt-get on the end-user side, that can not be guranteed, especially as the contents of the repositories change over time. Also, it is slow and bandwidth-consuming (must download the package index over the net each time.)

But apt-get can play an important game in helping the creator of a "klik recipe" to find out which packages are required for the "recipe".