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.
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.
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.