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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/README b/Master/texmf-dist/README index 912ad4954dd..27a48ef04e7 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/README @@ -1,15 +1,18 @@ -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. |