[Pkg-lyx-devel] lyx triggers?

[Sven Hoexter]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:10:53PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:

Hi Per,

> I just had an idea. As we know, lyx needs to reconfigure itself after certain
> packages has been installed/removed. The user currently has to do this
> manually.
> But what if we had a file, say /var/lib/lyx/stamp, and a trigger which
> touched the file when an interesting package has been installed (like a file
> in /usr/share/texmf). Then lyx could read the timestamp and reconfigure
> itself if it has been touched since last configuration.

Sounds usefull but it still requires a lot of other package maintainers to
change their packages to touch the trigger if I understand it correctly.

I think that it should be discussed on lyx-devel first to get some common
ground for an enhancement in this area.

Personally I'm not that much bothered by this problem but from time to time
it seems to confuse new users.

Sven