"Uwe Stöhr" <uwesto...@web.de> wrote in message
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So - maybe full offline installation wasn't all that convenient, but
it was at least possible - please don't cut off this way.
We won't cut that of. But note, to have a fully functional LaTeX
installation, you at least once need to open an Internet connection and
reconfigure LyX to get the LaTeX-packages LyX needs. There is no other
way.
If we remove the dictionaries and thesauri from the LyX installer, it will
require quite some manual work to install them. There are different files
for the dictionaries and thesaurus lists that need to go in different
directories. For multi-user installations it's also impossible to download
them directly to the program files because of the need for administrator
privileges.
Creating separate installers for each language (as we did for Aspell) is not
an option because of the huge maintenance burden. Unless a more user
friendly solution is developed, I'm not sure it's a good idea to remove the
files from the installer.
Joost
