Hi spiralofhope, spiralofhope writes:
> [...] > It got horrifying when I kept installing, trying, and uninstalling > software.. most of which left behind dotfiles and dotdirs that may or > may not remind me of the name of some program. (I hated wondering if > some object was necessary or just clutter) > > After several dozen dotfiles appeared, I learned to identify and > migrate items I cared about and reference each with a symlink. > > Then after blowing away a distribution and installing something new, I > would rebuild the symlinks pointing to that other partition/drive. The > programs would have a version similar enough to cope with re-using the > dotfiles. This was essential in my experiments with many, many programs > and distributions. You may be interested in `vcsh` which tries to avoid the need for a farm of symlinks and add git-based version control to the configuration files you really care about. Hope this helps -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
