Re: Windows uninstaller

[Paul A. Rubin]

Joost Verburg wrote:
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Having been using 1.5.1-1 for a while now, I just uninstalled 
1.5.0rc2.  I noticed that the uninstaller told MikTeX to remove some 
fonts (?) that LyX apparently installed (including a chess font?).  
Hopefully I won't need them.

LyX only installs private fonts in its own directory. They won't appear 
in other applications.


These weren't screen fonts, they were printing fonts -- if in fact they 
were fonts.  Unfortunately, the uninstaller's message about what it was 
removing scrolled away just as I was reading it.

The uninstaller was causing MikTeX to run initexmf, and I saw several 
things being removed, at least one of which had to do with lyxchess.sty. 
 I just ran 'kpsewhich lyxchess.sty' and came up empty, so maybe the 
LyX uninstaller was just telling MikTeX to de-register the contents of 
the LyX tex folder.

It doesn't directly me -- I haven't played chess since the time I walked 
into Fool's Mate in two consecutive games, once as white and once as 
black -- but it seems to me that if there's a point to installing those 
classes, the uninstaller should probably not de-register them during an 
upgrade.

/Paul