Sunfox » linux http://sunfox.org Le blogue de Sunny Ripert Thu, 05 May 2011 13:09:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dotfiles suck. http://sunfox.org/blog/2009/03/20/dotfiles-suck/ http://sunfox.org/blog/2009/03/20/dotfiles-suck/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:03:36 +0000 Sunny http://sunfox.org/?p=1370

~/.suckrc

Dotfiles are where the user configuration is usually hidden on Unix systems. They are responsible for the gigantic difference between ls and ls -a in your home directory.

Why dotfiles suck:

  • They fill up your home directory
  • Managing invisible files is awkward
  • Are they ini-type files ? xml ? sh ? One can’t tell, they don’t have any extension.
  • You can’t easily use any kind of versionning system
  • Configuration files for programs have nothing to do with the window manager used, yet a lot of programs’ configuration is hidden in .kde or .gnome2
  • They fill up your home directory

The solution: programs should place their configuration in ~/.config/. As simple as that. Only a few applications do that. It ought to change.

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Whilst Git was created by Linus for managing the Linux project, I get the feeling that Git’s raison d’être was to manage TextMate bundles. Weird since Linus probably doesn’t use TextMate. « Using Git within a project »

Github is fun :)

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Trop mignon le fond d’écran Gutsy Gibbon d’adylk.

Il est temps d’habiller votre nouvelle version d’Ubuntu !

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