Installing a new package

[Murray Eisenberg]

One real advantage of using the TDS structure is that, when one wants to
add a package not already included with the Y&Y distribution, there's a
readily identifiable place to put it.

Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> Murray Eisenberg writes:
>
>
>>It would be of considerable benefit if the next revision of Y & Y TeX
>>would adopt the TDS directory tree structure!
>
>
> it would be fine for those of us that understand the tds.  the majority
> of the population still seem to stumble along without much understanding
> of any of the issues; so the only gain would be to point the user at a
> different set of documentation.  which the user would likely not read
> any more than [s]he had read any of the detailed stuff relating to y&y.
>
> one has to admit, also, that the tds is pretty far removed from the
> world view of berthold horn (he used to speak out against it, in
> comp.text.tex, in the old days); i suspect that rearranging the
> executables to cope with a tds structure would be a major undertaking.
>
> robin
>

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