Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow

Re:Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow by nextos on Sunday April 17, 2016 @03:18PM (#11515833)

I'm torn about this. Some XDG-aware applications use a very convoluted sequence of subfolders to end up placing just a dotfile.

Whereas classical Unix applications simply have one easy to identify dotfile in ~/.

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Re:Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow by jxy on Monday April 18, 2016 @12:17AM (#11517701)

Exactly so. What's the point of moving dot files / configuration files away from $HOME, but only end up having a complex directory structure that stores what you can already do with dot files?

It may be subjective. I don't like the XDG specs. Have you peeked in to OS X $HOME/Library? That's what you end up having. (Let's not talk about windows registries, but I guess systemd people like it.) Is that any better than dot files under $HOME? Hardly so.

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Re:Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow by johnny22 on Monday April 18, 2016 @01:25AM (#11517867)

I prefer the xdg variables mostly for $XDG_CACHE_HOME and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Those are the kinds of things I don't want to keep having to write rules to exclude from my backups.

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