diff --git a/package/avm/lyx/lyx.conf b/package/avm/lyx/lyx.conf
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+var_append confopt " " "--with-frontend=qt"
diff --git a/package/avm/lyx/lyx.desc b/package/avm/lyx/lyx.desc
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+
+[COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+[COPY] Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
+[COPY] the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
+[COPY] the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/avm/lyx/lyx.desc
+[COPY] ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Clifford Wolf
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+[COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+[COPY] the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+[COPY] (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public
+[COPY] License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please
+[COPY] have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM
+[COPY] file for details.
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+[I] LyX is the first WYSIWYM document processor. 
+
+[T] LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
+[T] approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
+[T] appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual
+[T] layout to the software. 
+
+[U] http://www.lyx.org
+
+[A] Matthias Ettrich (original author)  lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
+[M] Andreas V. 'netrunner' Meier <avmeier@web.de>
+
+[C] extra/office
+
+[L] GPL
+[S] Stable
+[V] 1.3.5
+[P] X -----5---9 800.000
+
+[D] 873955342 lyx-1.3.5.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/
+