2.4.0-beta-2 possible regression: Float inset stops instant preview functionality in Fedora 37 X86_64

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 1/22/23 13:37, José Matos wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-01-22 at 11:46 +0000, José Matos wrote:
>> This is not a difficult problem but it takes time to get all the
>> packages right. It would be nice to have an automatic way to do this
>> but for now I settled for the manual solution.
> @Riki since you also use Fedora, but this also applies to distributors
> from other distributions and OS's. What do you think it constitutes a
> minimal distribution, or an average distribution, in terms of the
> requirements for latex packages?

I would think enough to compile the User Guide would count as a 
reasonable starting point. Beyond that, we're getting into things that 
are very user-dependent.

One thing we could maybe do to help is try to detect when compilation 
will fail and pop a dialog saying: "LyX has not deteced package X on 
your system. The document may not compile correctly if you do not 
install it." And maybe direct the user to the relevant part of the 
documentation, where we could give basic hints about how to install 
missing packages. I think we have the information already to be able to 
do this.

Riki