On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On 05/21/2018 05:46 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Am 14.05.2018 um 04:11 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: > > > >> Even *the MikTeX maintainer* has made it clear that we should not > >> update MikTeX without asking permission from the user. > > > > Where has he stated this? > > He said so in an email to Scott. Which Scott mentioned in an email to > you. And which Joel, or someone else, then mentioned again, directly > asking you about it. > I believe it was someone else—I don't recall raising this point to anyone nor do I have an informed technical opinion on the issue at hand. Regardless, the first concrete point I found in this regard is in an April 4 email from Scott where Scott notes: I just received an email from Christian Schenk, the developer of MiKTeX, in which he says that a MiKTeX update can break compilation of documents, and that an update of MiKTeX should not be done without a warning. He says that only if the user agrees it is OK to update MiKTeX. I suspect this is what Riki is referring to. - Joel
