Dotfiles

My personal dotfiles repo

The main philosiphy is simplicity, in particular I've decided this means:

• Separate application config from other configs
  • In this repo each application has it's own folder
  • This makes it easy to configure an application
  • Although the cost is it's harder to see how applications depend on eachother
  • Some exceptions can be made, for example python contains config for both poetry and pyenv because if I want one I'll want both
• Applications should only loosely depend on eachother
  • Where possible account for the fact that an application might not be present
  • This isn't always possible:
    • Some applications don't supporting it
    • There's not always a sane alternative
    • My own laziness
• Don't generate config indirectly
  • Use the standard config files where possible
  • This means no nix (dispite how cool it is)
    • If you want to customise it you have to learn:
      • That function's parameters
      • And probably still that application's config too
    • If the application changes it's config then you have to relearn everything to change it
    • That's too complicated
• Split config into multiple files where possible
  • This is to separate concerns
  • See ssh for an example
  • For ssh in particular it allows me to have home and work configurations in separate repos
• Comment your configs
  • Sections for configs are especially nice
  • Remember that when you read the config in a years time you won't remember why you needed that weird setting enabled
• Use the application defaults
  • This helps with when you go to other machines
  • Not super critical (probably something I should focus less on?)
  • One clear exception would be for config location
    • Try and keep most things in .config if you can

Key Features

• Managed by stow
• Applications to be installed are specified in a file:
  • <app name>/.config/mpm/pkgs/<package manager>/<app name>
  • One day I'll actually finish mpm and get this working...

Install instructions

1. Install stow
2. Clone this repo to your home directory
3. Install whatever configs you want using stow <folder-name>. Some applications, particularly on linux, require config in other directories, read the config readme for info.

Bootstrap

TODO: Have a bootstrap scrit to setup stuff how I like it TODO: Finish mpm so keeping track of packages is easier