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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2013-04-07 18:53:05 +0000
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-Copyright 2004, 2007 TeX Users Group.
+Copyright 2004, 2007, 2013 TeX Users Group.
You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file.
-This tree (texmf-dist) is for the formats (plain, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and
-all the rest) and all the packages, together with their documentation
-and sources. Most everything used in day-to-day TeXing, except the
-binaries themselves.
+This tree (texmf-dist) contains the packages and their documentation and
+support files which are distributed by TeX Live.
-Another criteria: everything that can be classified automatically by
-Fabrice's tpm-factory goes in texmf-dist (or texmf-doc). If not, it
-goes in texmf.
+The binaries and TL infrastructure files themselves are in separate
+directories (bin/ and tlpkg/ respectively), but just about everything
+else we distribute is here. Files generated during installation or use
+are in separate texmf-config and texmf-var.
+
+TeX Live started with just one tree (named texmf); over time, it was
+split into other trees (texmf-dist, texmf-doc) for reasons that seemed
+good at the time, but as of TeX Live 2013, it seemed simplest to once
+again have only one main tree. We kept the name texmf-dist instead of
+going back to texmf since the "-dist" explicitly signals that it is the
+files that are distributed.
-And yet another: texmf-dist should be distribution-independent, so that,
-in theory, it could be used by distributions other than TeX Live. So,
-no web2c/kpathsea-specific files.