"Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Why "wrong lists"? I thought the idea was that there are always valid lists, >> since configure won't overwrite the old lists if something failed. > > If latex is not installed, configure.py (with the patch I just sent) > will produce a default textclass.lst. Lyx will start, and can even > display a .lyx file. But lyx is obviously unusable. This is why I did > not like this approach.
If latex is not installed, LyX is not supposed to work better than that anyway. If the problem is that latex may have been installed after LyX, of course a reconfigure may be necessary. However, I do not understand why the installer should run configure.py at all. This will be done at LyX' first start, user by user. If the goal is to make miktex load a bunch of packages, I suspect this could be done differently. JMarc
