On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > Le 11/02/14 10:06, Vincent van Ravesteijn a écrit : > >> 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. > > > We could add to LyX a way to interact with the miktex package manager and > therefore install/update packages. I am not sure how, though. > > JMarc >
At least we can use the SDK also to query whether a package is installed. After reconfigure, we can present a list of packages that were not yet installed and ask the user whether he or she wants to install them now. When using a package in a document, MikTeX will possibly automatically install the package as is common for LaTeX users on Windows. Vincent
