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Re:Dotfiles.github.com - A guide to dotfiles on GitHub by tlvince on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @09:43AM (#3883873)
A workaround to the "symlink farm" method is making use of "--config=PATH" options for most apps and setting up aliases.

Conforming to the XDG base dir standard as much as possible makes sense but can get painful sometimes (e.g. vim: http://tlvince.com/2011/02/03/vim-respect-xdg/).

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