*Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
| Note that we do not have currently any way to know from LyX
| whether a package is available. So I guess that, instead of using
| \usepackage{url}, we should use something like
| \IfFileExists{url.sty} {\usepackage{url}
| {\newcommand{\url}[1]{\texttt{#1}}}
This is the same as for all other packages LyX uses as well. The only
difference is that for url.sty it is easy to make a simple
replacement.
Lgb
PS. pre8 will be released tomorrow. that gives us 10 days to get rid
of remaining critical bugs.