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+Originally written 2004, Karl Berry. Public domain.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.