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Re:Dotfile madness by akerro on Saturday February 02, 2019 @03:40PM (#19065557)
cmake, conky, dlv, electron, electrum, gnome, gnutls, gradle, idea, ipfs, kde, maven, npm, ohmyzsh, sonar, steam, thunderbird, veracrypt, vim, visualvm, vscode, yarn.

and now the most fun:

bash, zsh, git, gtk, man, wget, xorg

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Re:Dotfile madness by tomjakubowski on Saturday February 02, 2019 @08:27PM (#19067162)
git has supported ~/.config/git/config for a very long time. You don't have to use ~/.gitconfig.
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Re:Dotfile madness by krferriter on Sunday February 03, 2019 @12:16AM (#19068013)
I'd tend to give a pass to things like shells (bash, zsh) and ssh and gpg. Not the other ones though.
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Re:Dotfile madness by TheAceOfHearts on Sunday February 03, 2019 @02:08AM (#19068243)
They shouldn't get a pass. fish [0] is also a shell and it places all its configs sanely in `~/.config/fish/`.

[0] https://fishshell.com/

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Re:Dotfile madness by GregMartinez on Saturday February 02, 2019 @09:04PM (#19067310)
dlv has an open PR to move the config from $HOME/.dlv to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dlv so that one should be fixed soon.
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