Dear Heiko and LaTeX folks, I have tried to generate TDS archives that can be unpacked in a texmf tree directly. [...] http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~oberdiek/tmp/latex-tds/index.html I agree with the general sentiment that this is great, but would it be possible for these TDS-compliant archives of the LaTeX trees themselves to be on CTAN, somehow? Seems like it would be useful for CTAN to hold these improved/optimized zip archives as well as (or maybe even instead of) the autogenerated ones. And having them on CTAN makes it easier to use them for TL (and other distributions, I imagine). Perhaps, for example, macros/latex/base-tds.zip macros/latex/required/cyrillic-tds.zip macros/latex/required/graphics-tds.zip macros/latex/required/tools-tds.zip Thanks, Karl