I've been experimenting with dotbot [1] for the last little bit and it is similar to what is described here. The main difference being that the placement of the

I've been experimenting with dotbot [1] for the last little bit and it is similar to what is described here. The main difference being that the placement of the dot files is configured in a JSON/YAML file instead of a directly structure. It doesn't have any external dependencies, unless you consider python an external dependency, but most all distros come with that built-in these days. It's not a management system either. It's just a tool for describing where to copy things to. So if you simply choose not to use it later it's not that difficult to migrate. [1] https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot/ https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot/