Not sure that I understand you there. The current situation in Drupal is that the contents of the tarball are exactly the same as the contents of CVS (except that CVS is more up-to-date). Are you saying that this will no longer be the case? Do you mean that checking out Drupal core will now have a different result to downloading a tarball of Drupal core?
My understanding was that the Drupal core CVS repository would have everything under /public_html, and that the Drupal core tarball would have the same (this is how it is now). Why would you want to change this? Doing so would only confuse people.
Agreed. If we go ahead with this, the directory structure in CVS should match the structure in the tarball. If not, we're asking for trouble, and it is a nightmare for people using CVS to maintain/update their sites. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/