Bug#397464: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#397464: lyx: shouldn't store a cache of available programs/packages/...

[Per Olofsson]

Samuel Thibault:
> When first starting lyx, one gets an impressive list of 
> +checking for "pplatex"...   no
> +checking for "latex"...   yes
> 
> etc, and seems to store the result in ~/.lyx/ . The problem comes when
> ~ is stored on an NFS server, and available on other fairly different
> systems, with/without pplatex, etc.  The problem also comes just when
> you install/deinstall packages in Debian.  So storing a cache of
> available programs/packages/... doesn't really make sense, particularly
> since the reconfiguration doesn't take so long.

I've brought this up with upstream before. It's not an easy problem to
solve, but hopefully most things will be detected at runtime in the
future (at least whether specific programs exist).

-- 
Pelle