Dear Scott,
MiKTeX 2.9 has been available since 2010 and the *only* version
available since 2014; see https://miktex.org/releases. Hence the message
in your proposed dialogue
LyX requires MiKTeX 2.9 or later. Your version is X.X.
Choose "Continue" to automatically update MiKTeX now,
or "Cancel" to stop the LyX installation. If you do not
understand this message, you should choose "Continue".
Cancel Continue
doesn't make much sense (to me). It is the package repository number
that is critical, currently at 6664 at time of writing (see
https://miktex.org/ under Package Repository) but I don't know what that
was at the time the update problem arose and in any case it is likely to
be confusing to an average user.
I think it would be better to use a date: "LyX requires MiKTeX 2.9
updated later than yyyy/mm/dd" (and that format of date to avoid
ambiguity around dd/mm/yyyy versus mm/dd/yyyy). Presumably the date can
be found from Uwe's announcements to lyx-devel.
Andrew
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