Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe

[J Busser]

On the subject of klik

At 6:47 PM +0200 9/17/05, Andreas Tille wrote:
>  > What you
>  > have in mind might be some kind of testing / advertising for end users.

Even after debs are available, would klik have value for debian (or at least
non-debian) distributions?

I am thinking

1) although a doctor may arrange for someone to support the practice 
management system the doctor might as a hobbiest or for home access 
to the practice info install or re-install Linux at home. If the 
support people prefer to have the practice members using some other 
distro, klik (if it better supports non-debian installs) could make 
it easier for the doctor to set up the access from home. If course 
now I think that is stupid because it is better to have their actual 
practice system appear as a default or at least selectable choice in 
the client which would not happen from a klik install. So we are back 
to klik only for GNUmed evaluation.

2) but my second use-case was going to be for patches. So I am 
wondering whether, especially once GNUmed is in use, a critical patch 
particularly on a security or patient safety issue could be important 
to be implemented quickly and maybe faster than all distros can have 
a custom deb or other binary. Now you might say "well that is a job 
for the support person" but sometimes the right local support people 
are not always accessible quickly enough and if we are talking 
something about a client (and if we did succeed in getting enough 
doctors to use Linux from home) that would be a lot of home-based 
copies of clients that would not need to be remotely accessed by 
support people which could be a big advantage.