>>>>> "William" == William WAISSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

William> In fact, it loks like I have NO XForms installed.
>>
William> What is the package / RPM which provides XForms ? Is this
William> package free ( GPL ) ?
>>
William> I use a Mandrake 8.1, Do you think It is normal that Mandrake
William> installs Lyx without installing XForms too, since Lyx crashes
William> without It ? ( I didn't used options like --force or --nodeps
William> ).
>>  Actually, xforms (for now) only exists in binary form, and linux
>> distribution maintainers do not want to include it for this reason.

William>  They are probably right ;-) what a pity lyx depends on this
William> kind of binary package ;-((

We are eagerly waiting for the LGPL release of xforms 1.0, which has
been promised for the end of year 2001 (!)

William>  OK, I know Mandrake maintainers and will forward this to
William> them. ( I already supposed this could be Mandrake Problem ).

If you have direct access to some of them, I have other bugs to report
:) In particular, the package urw-fonts is has broken symbol fonts.
You can point them to me (or to lyx-devel) if they are interested
discussing lyx bugs in mandrake.

JMarc

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