[Pkg-lyx-devel] lyx triggers?

[Sven Hoexter]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:21:52AM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> Sven Hoexter wrote:
> > So following up myself ...
> > 
> > Our trigger script that will be called by the dpkg trigger thingy would
> > create the stamp file which can then be checked by LyX to see if it should
> > reconfigure itself, right?
> 
> Exactly. It would register triggers for certain paths like /usr/share/texmf, so
> when something is installed/removed there, lyx will be notified.
> 
> Come to think of it, maybe lyx could just check the timestamps of
> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R*. Then we wouldn't need any triggers...

A non Debian centered aproach will have a better chance to get upstreams blessing
of course. Beside that the trigger thingy in dpkg looks nifty and I don't find
it abusive to use it. On the other hand we don't have policy for the usage yet
and so far I've only triggers running for man-db and menu. If everyone adopts this
feature to work around such issue that might change.

I don't know how many different locations on different systems have to be check to
detect a change and what other mayor distributors use. I suspect there are a lot
depending on the distribution of your OS and the used tex distribution.

It's at least a basis for some discussion on lyx-devel for post 1.6 development.

Sven
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