Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > Does this runs configure in backgrounds? You don't want to mess up
> > with root home directory (creating ~/.lyx).
> 
> It does run configure.

Bad news.
But again even if it does not I don't think we should never run lyx unless its
properly installed, i.e. not it in make check phase.

> In theory, we should take responsibility for testing on all but in
> practice we do not.

I don't think this is possible. There are so many different ways
how things are handled that you have to let distro maintainers do
their work.

> I agree that the tests should be to make sure everything is fine on
> the target machine. But if a maintainer really wants to know whether

No, you misunderstood me. I claim we shouldn't run this whole extensive
set of test on the target machine by make check.
We can create some additional test target in makefile and announce it.

> I guess the best thing to do is what you say -- explicitly state all
> of the dependencies.

Have you ever seen the full list of LaTeX classes we "support"? :)

Pavel

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