On 06/20/2018 10:28 AM, Kees Zeelenberg wrote: > > >1. increased document interoperability between architectures because both > > > Linux and Mac use preferably TeX Live (MacTeX is redistribution of > > > TeX Live if I read their pages right, CMIIW). > > > > Both MikTeX and TeXLive use the same sources, so there is no > functional difference. They only differ in the GUI and the updating > process, and in my experience MikTeX is here much more mature and easy > to use than TeXLive. In fact, it would even be much better if LyX were > to switch to MikTeX on Linux. >
LyX does not make this decision. It's a distro-level (Fedora, Ubuntu...) packaging decision. > >2. the instalation time of first install of MiKTeX (including triggered > > > online updates via configure) is *horrific*. As I wrote in some > earlier > > > email, it took >1 hour to get LyX+MiKTeX working on clean Win machine > > > mainly because of MiKTeX package handling (and our reconfigure:). > > > > Installation time is mainly so long because LyX installs each missing > package separately, and has to call the MikTeX package manager (mpm) > each time. But by using the –install option, mpm can also install more > than one package, either from a package list on the command line or > from a list in a file, and then works much faster. The whole process > would then probably take only a few minutes. > The installer is supposed to do this, but the cmake packaging script seems not actually to have been including the relevant list of files. Still, in my testing, it remains a lengthy process. Riki
