On 17-Jul-19 3:00 PM, Kees Zeelenberg wrote:
> Op 14-07-19 om 19:20 schreef Richard Kimberly Heck:
>> On 7/14/19 12:26 PM, Brian Davis wrote:
>>
>> without more information. But contrary to what someone said here, MikTeX
>> has an annoying habit of updating itself in the background and breaking
>> things. We've seen it time and time again. The list archives are full of
>> such problems.
>
> I have been using MikTeX for over 15 years (with LyX for over 10 
> years), and have never experienced such an automatic update that some 
> have ascribed to it. To make sure, I have checked on the MikTeX issue 
> tracker, with the following outcome. A user can configure MikTeX to 
> install on the fly LaTeX-packages that are required by his/her 
> document. But MikTeX does never update automatically its executables 
> or packages that have previously been installed; this has to be done 
> manually through the MikTeX console. 
> (https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/342#issuecomment-512218341)
>
> In the past LyX was available in a bundle with MikTeX. During install, 
> the LyX-installer did update MikTeX; so it was not MikTeX, but the 
> LyX-installer that did the update, and caused problems.
>
>
+1

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