On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > Le 10/02/14 23:50, Uwe Stöhr a écrit : > >>> Why don't you bundle the needed packages with the installer then ? >> >> >> You know that this impossible. The packages change so often, it would be >> a nightmare to keep the up to date all the time. Moreover what about >> packaging bugs (for example sometimes files are missing from >> MiKTeX-packages due to mistakes of the package). > > > And (again), what's wrong with using the MikTex package manager object from > the SDK (http://docs.miktex.org/sdk/). Then you woul only have to ship a > list of files, and miktex would download/update them gracefuly. > > JMarc >
This wouldn't solve the problem of slow downloading of a large package, but ok. If the installer would offer the possibility to skip installing all needed LaTeX packages (because it takes very long time), then the Test* macros will trigger the on-the-fly install anyway. So, how can we avoid that everyone has to wait very long for certain packages which only a fraction might ever want to use. Vincent
