Missing ~/.local directory

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <jbsn@tpg.com.au>]

Greetings,

I just installed Debian Squeeze on a machine using the espeakup 
installer. It worked very well. However, there is no ~/.local directory. 
The orca configuration files are in the ~/.orca directory. I thought 
that the ~/.local directory was introduced some time ago.

Any ideas?

Bertil