On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Matthew Parnell <m...@parnmatt.co.uk> wrote: > I do use GNU Stow myself; however, only as a tool to provide a nice > wrapper to link my dotfiles from a git repo to where they ought to be.
Same here. I haven't found any less-silly solution to date. Dropping the Perl dependency would be nice, but Debian & OpenBSD already make it very difficult to not have it. > In fact, I was thinking of writing a GNU Stow drop in replacement in > Suckless-style C when I find some time (GNU Stow is written in Perl, I > believe). Interested! The interface is pretty simple in fact. Drop all of the -- flags because they look quite useless. Supporting -dtSDRnvVh seems reasonable and would probably give you 99% compatibility with everything out there. <3,K.
