Uwe Stöhr wrote: > It is impossible to take care about every OS. For MiKTeX, MacTeX/TeXLive > there is no problem and TeXLive works on all platforms. > > In your Linux distro, the package might be tricky to install in another > distro it is not tricky. What is a common package in your distro might be a > non- standard package in another distro. There are too many distros > available and LyX doesn't need to take care about the spacial packaging of > your OS. But it needs to describe its features. > > In general installing a LateX package is not difficult and LateX tells you > which package it misses. On many platforms it even works automatically as > long as you have an Internet connection. On Windows all module packages are > even installed automatically together with LyX when LyX is started the > first time. This will hopefully also be the case in TeXLive 2011.
what is written in the paragraphs around above shows that you have little idea how things are done except of the windows pond. texlive creature is way too big to be installed and splitting it into parts where advanced parts are installed on administrator request only (not necessarily under user control). this is done on important linux archs, i'm not picking some skeleton from the closet. although automatic updates might be possible with upcoming texlive installs it wouldn't be prefered way of packaging except of windows. so your usage of 'all platforms' seems to be synonym to 'distribution workflow on windows' and translation of 'It is impossible to take care about every OS' should be read as 'it is impossible to take care about anything except of windows OS'. pavel
