"Leuven, E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> No. Having a documentation that is kept up to date when the lazy 
>> developers change something without touching the documentation is 
>> good. Note also that people who use mac or emacs bindings will 
>> appreciate to see the right bindings. A documentation that only says 
>> "don't ask me where this thing is, search yourself" is not very
>> useful.

> with a decent shortcut ui the documentation will say "just click here
> and you will see it"

And when the documentation is printed?

>> where is texlive package manager?
>
> <shrug>
>
> lyx should avoid entering the market for latex distribution management
> as much as possible

This is what it does: make a list of the packages it uses and explain
why they are needed. We are not interested in the packages we do not
know about. 

> we should remove it and have configure.py write a log file.
>
> we can then simply add a shortcut in the help menu that shows this log file
> in the same way we show the latex log file.

How many people can read a latex log file? Certainly not a majority
among people who prefer to use LyX instead of bare latex.

In any case, there is not much bloat in this feature.

JMarc

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