TEXINPUTS: how to handle "extensions"

[Werner Lemberg]

On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Thomas Esser wrote:

> My suggestion is to add one new top-level directory below texmf where
> all extensions can be stored, so that we would get
>   texmf/extensions/<package>
> Then, I could say that some special format searches
>   texmf/extensions/<package>//:texmf/tex//

The question is: what is an extension? E.g., eTeX is an extension too to
some extent. But basically I support this.


    Werner