Am 20.07.2011 20:25, schrieb Pavel Sanda:
what is written in the paragraphs around above shows that you have little idea how things are done except of the windows pond. texlive creature is way too big to be installed and splitting it into parts where advanced parts are installed on administrator request only (not necessarily under user control). this is done on important linux archs, i'm not picking some skeleton from the closet.
I personally was able to run TeXLive from an USB stick on an Ubuntu of a colleague. This was an emergency action to fulfill his thesis deadline. And it astonishingly worked. We could compile his LyX files without any further package fiddling. This was about 3 years ago and I doubt that this should not be possible with TeXLive 2011.
although automatic updates might be possible with upcoming texlive installs it wouldn't be prefered way of packaging except of windows. so your usage of 'all platforms' seems to be synonym to 'distribution workflow on windows'
I was referring to TeXLive and you can use this on all platforms directly from an USB stick.
and translation of 'It is impossible to take care about every OS' should be read as 'it is impossible to take care about anything except of windows OS'.
Yes, that is sadly true. There are too many distributions of Linux and Unix. I once tested out Fragalware and also Ubuntu and these two distros had a completely different package managing system and also its LaTeX implementation were different. I've been once sitting on a SuSE installation of a student and saw that its package handling is also different from the distros I tested. Beat me for this phrase or not, but the more I had to do with students using Linux I came to the conclusion that Linux will always be something for experts. All users I know are it with PCs but the majority in companies and even at universities are simple users who just want to use a certain program without being forced to look behind the scene because they have to concentrate on their real work. That is btw. also the reason the MiKTeX developer introduced the automatic package installation and without that LyX on Windows would not have been a success as it is now.
regards Uwe
