[Pkg-lyx-devel] lyx triggers?

Sven Hoexter sven at timegate.de
Sun Jun 8 14:29:10 UTC 2008


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

Ah wait. You're talking about dpkg-trigger thingy? Is that somewhere
documented?

Sven



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