Le 09/06/2020 à 13:51, Yu Jin a écrit :
Am Di., 9. Juni 2020 um 13:12 Uhr schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:We have to discuss whether running configure.py is necessary at installation time. AFAIR, this is just a trick to make miktex install all missing LaTeX packages (see the chkconfig.ltx part). Is there any other use for doing it?Actually, if the user runs the installer as admin, then the packages will be installed as admin (in case the auto install for packages is allowed in MiKTeX preferences), which would not be the case if the installer wouldn't run configure.py and the user starts LyX after installation as user. So in this case it is worth running configure.py from the installer. In other cases it doesn't hurt too. Therefore I'd say we keep that functionality.
If we want to cater for miktex, it would be much more effective to use its API to provide a list of packages we need, rather than using the side effect of automatic downloading packages when they are needed. I suspect it would be much faster and would allow for a reasonable UI.
OTOH, for texlive, running configure.py is just wasting time if I understand correctly. And since a lot of packages are checked in configure.py just for this, we are talking about a lot of time, here.
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