from a practical point of view I personally prefer to have all production files for one type of task in one directory rather than in 2 and not find, say babel.def in generic but babel.sty in latex, but I guess there are arguments for both cheers frank -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von Karl Berry Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Juni 2006 01:35 An: [log in to unmask] Betreff: Re: LaTeX Release 2005/12/01 Regarding babel, I don't understand, why some TeX distributions put *all* files below TDS/*/generic/, from my readme.txt: There is no deep reason behind it for TL -- the ctan2tds.pl kind of steers one in the direction of choosing a single format (latex/generic/whatever) for a package. Exceptions take more code. Can't say why for teTeX and vtex. I agree that it would be better to use tex/latex/babel and tex/generic/babel as appropriate. When it is time to update TL, I hope to use your bundles and then everything will be better. Thanks, Karl