Op 3-3-2012 14:31, Uwe Stöhr schreef:
Am 29.02.2012 08:15, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn:
Yes, and I want the installer to ask me: "Do you really want to wait
? Or do you want to install the
packages on the fly when needed ?"
This is not that easy to implement. However, note that the bundle
installer is designed for new installations and thus for new users.
They won't have the knowledge what is done, what MiKTeX is for what a
package means, etc. I had in the past much troubles with new users who
complained that here and there some features were not available but
described in the UserGuide.
I therefore decided to install all thins supported by LyX.
Since this decision these user complains could be reduced to almost
zero and the documentation files are compilable. Especially this must
be assured if we don't want to choke on user complaints. This has also
the advantage that you later on don't need an Internet connection. As
I wrote from my experience in south america many people don't have
Internet at home, so they have to bring their Computers to an Internet
café and install everything there as complete as possible.
A complete installation furthermore has the advantage that all LyX
features are available for all users of a PC if the installer was
executed as Admin.
I didn't mention the bundle installer.
All this doesn't answer my question why we can't have the user decide
what he wants to do. I just don't want to wait for half an hour to
install LyX on a new pc, and I _never_ compile the user guide, and I
have MikTeX pop up when I used a package which is not installed, and
there are soo many packages that I don't even use.
Especially in your installer, you change MikTeX's setting, which is just
rude and forces me to wait. In the official installer at least I can
press cancel a lot of times if I have configured MikTeX to ask-on-the-fly.
Vincent
