On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:48:18PM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Andre Poenitz schrieb: > > >Since the installer fight showed his ugly head recently I think I might > >mention my opinion on such behaviour: Waiting 25 minutes for something > >that I don't need is a bit beyond my expectation even of a 'complete > >install'. Can't this 'LaTeX package search' thing not somehow happen in > >the background? > > It can. But currently this is done while configuring LyX, this is > independent from the installer you use.
Maybe the LyX configuration nis doing too much then. > I see no probblem here, because the console Window shows you the progress > and afterwards the user has a feature complete and working installation Putting on that dusty hat of a snobbish Windows user: I'd wet my pants for seeing Clippit swamping me with multimedia ads during installation, but I do not want to see any black Windows during any kind of installiation. 'Consoles' do not exist. If I see one, I call the administrator to kill it. > And no, you need these packages, otherwise many features of LyX are not > usable. (take for example formal tables, instant preview, show changes in > output, etc.) Why not bundle the packages we are actively supporting? Andre'
