BASE PACKAGE DIRECTO RY STR UC TUR E ( ALL MAGENTO EDITIO NS)

Base is really a repository for making core Magento functionality available to the frontend. So do not make any of your customizations in the base package—files in the base package should not be edited. Custom themes should be made inside of their own design package directories. Files that need to be changed can be copied from base to your custom design package and edited there or you can create a set of local files to hold your modifications.

Rules for working with the base package:

•      Do NOT edit the files in the base package.

•      Do NOT create a custom theme inside of the base package.

Note: Magento versions prior to CE v1.4 and EE v1.8 did not have a base package. Legacy instructions and tutorials on theming do not account for it, so it is important that you not follow legacy tutorials for theming that do not use the base package.

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