Yes. And we ship files only under core, and under local just empty subdirectories. This way, if the admins untar the tarball over what is there, we do not overwrite what they did to their site, and he has to move the .htaccess manually (or merge the changes manually). They now can proceed to sort out whatever they did to local on their own. They put stuff in it in the first place, and it is outside the responsibility of the Drupal core team. On 5/9/05, Karoly Negyesi <karoly@negyesi.net> wrote:
I elaborate a bit:
public_html/drupal/core public_html/drupal/core/modules public_html/drupal/core/themes public_html/drupal/local public_html/drupal/local/modules public_html/drupal/local/themes public_html/drupal/local/sites public_html/drupal/local/sites/whatever/modules public_html/drupal/local/sites/whatever/themes