Re: rationale of texmf-dist

[Thomas Esser]

> I'm wondering what the reason for the creation of the additional
> hierarchy texmf-dist is. If everything (nearly everything) from the
> tetex distribution goes into this directory, what's the difference
> between $TEXMFLOCAL and $TEXMFMAIN?

TEXMFMAIN is something that has a close relation to the installed
programs. I.e. you'll have the pool files there which change from
release to release. The idea is to seperate this stuff from the
more generic stuff like fonts / macros.

Thomas