My configurations

Here are my system configurations. There are many like them but these are mine.

Installation

Clone this repo to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, which in profile/profile I’ve set to $HOME/etc. See that file for other XDG directories I’ve set to non-standard places. (Just in case something hard-codes $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, I also symlink them in bootstrap.sh, which see below.)

Instead of GNU Stow or a Makefile, I use a short bootstrap.sh script that reads bootstrap.manifest, a tab-separated file mapping repo paths to paths in $HOME. It only contains files for programs that aren’t XDG-compliant, so it should stay short.

Anyway, run bootstrap.sh in this directory and you should be set.

Programs to install

Required

bash + readline

I prefer this shell over others, since I don’t do anything super wild in the terminal nowadays anyway

git

Kind of required to do anything with this repo

keychain

Manages ssh-agent

Extra

mbsync

For mail.

Notes

• My emacs configuration is elsewhere, but it goes in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME as well.

License

Everyone is permitted to do whatever with this software, without limitation. This software comes without any warranty whatsoever, but with two pieces of advice:

• Don’t hurt yourself.
• Make good choices.