Hi, Uwe,
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Paul A. Rubin schrieb:
When the installer got around to running the configuration script, it
took easily ten times the normal time (normal time being about a
minute or so, this go around being upwards of 10 minutes). During
that time, fc-cache.exe (which I gather is a font caching utility
that's part of XFree) ran intermittently and hammered my CPU, although
I'm not sure it accounts for all the extra time spent.
This is the a problem of the used MiKTeX package repository or your
internet connection. Does it go faster when you manually select another
package repository in MiKTeX's options and then reconfigure LyX?
I can't test this without uninstalling/reinstalling LyX. When I run
reconfigure from inside LyX, it either does not look for all the missing
LaTeX packages or else does so by a method other than trying to compile
a test document using that class. So reconfigure from inside LyX no
longer causes MikTeX to look for missing classes.
Please note, though, that when I ran the installer I had MikTeX's
"Install missing packages on-the-fly" option set to 'No'. So latex
should have failed on the test documents using missing classes without
any attempt to go to the Internet.
The configuration script ran in spurts -- several lines of output
regarding packages, long pause, repeat -- and the pauses did not
necessarily coincide with missing packages. In some cases, the next
output line after a pause was a 'yes' (found), and in some cases a 'no'
(not found). So I don't think this is tied to MikTeX trying to download
packages.
Does the installation script generate (or more likely use MikTeX to
generate) font files when it discovers new fonts or font packages?
Cheers,
Paul
