Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Generally speaking - apart from your mom, which might indeed be better >> served without additional info, there is also crowd of people who go mad >> when software contain hidden "kits" which were nowhere mentioned. > > Sure, but people like my mother are the average users in my experience. They > are lost with these kind of additional info because under Windows there is no > concept of package handling and dependencies. This concept is simply unknown > for most users. I never forgot the experienced users. The installer already > provides several options they can use. Just check it out to see what you can > do. For this particular case, see my proposal above. With this the experts > know what to do.
I checked it out. When I used the installer I did not give me any option, it just 'informed' that MiKTeX is going to be upgraded and forced me to accept it. That's what I said can make some people mad and decent application should not do without asking. I believe that if we add the part of the message I wrote last time which would simply state something along the lines "If you are not sure, the answer is most probably Yes." anyone with basic school education would pass the test, don't you think so? Release notes is must read for packagers or maybe also interesting for people who look for particular fix or feature, general audience will not read it... Pavel Off-topic in this thread, but installing experience on Windows was somewhat frustraing here, mainly because of this on-fly update miktex feature. I have decent broadband connectivity, but it took *ages* for the update to finish the first install. If I were to show LyX to my friend on his Windows computer I wouldn't be able to reach basic functionality within first hour of install(!). It's somewhat paradoxical that normal debian install which is much bigger (in total like 2.5 GB for lyx+texlive) takes order of magnitude less time to install (in total like 2.5 GB for lyx+texlive; surprisingly most of it is just 'doc' directory, packages+core texlive make it into some 300mb only). Also there seems to be bug, that lyx icon does not disappear from desktop after unistalling.
