Putting Particle outside the docroot

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I'm currently exploring Particle, and the documentation seems to suggest that the whole project goes into your /themes/ directory. Given that the Drupal theme itself is completely within apps/drupal, shouldn't we be able to put Particle outside the docroot and symlink to apps/drupal from the /themes/ directory?

At first glance, in my development environment, with a few path tweaks in the config files it appears to work.

There are security and organizational benefits to keeping things out of the docroot that aren't necessary there. I don't know if this is a change that could be made in a backwards compatible way. But if it works, we could at least document how to. Can you think of any downsides?