On 03/15/2018 11:45 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 14.03.2018 um 04:31 schrieb Richard Heck: > >> If this dialog is popped at the very beginning of the installation, >> before ANYTHING is actually done, then it is impossible that the >> MiKTeX installation >> should be affected. > > This is not true and I don't get why I cannot make this clear to you.
I was talking about whether anything would happen *as a result of someone running the installer*. I understand that there are *other* ways that the MiKTeX installation can be damaged, as happened to your mother. That is a really horrible MiKTeX bug, and there is nothing we can do about it. > I decided that I cannot stand for an installer that can send many > users into serious > troubles despite I know a way to prevent this. The only issue here is: Do we add a dialog of the sort in question? The installer with that dialog cannot cause any new problems, because either: (1) the person installs LyX and it updates MiKTeX just as you want; (2) the person does not install LyX, in which case they are in the same situation they were before, because the installer was a no-op. Granted, they might screw up their MiKTeX installation eventually, but that is a MiKTeX bug and ought to be dealt with at that level. > The installer for LyX 2.3.1 will return to the old behavior. Why? Won't that just break the installations of people still using 2.2.3? Richard
