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> I wonder if anyone else other than me was insane enough to try and use GNU Make to manage dotfiles? Not a bad idea IMHO… thanks for the blog post. I'm tempte
by alwillis 3y ago
> I wonder if anyone else other than me was insane enough to try and use GNU Make to manage dotfiles?
Not a bad idea IMHO… thanks for the blog post. I'm tempted to try something similar.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoThe real makefile that I use and wrote about has some features that I didn't get around to describing in the blog post. Also has a ton of comments. https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/blob/master/GNUmakefile https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/blob/master/GNUmake... The metaprogramming template I described is used to implement XDG Base Directories. The links take the XDG variables into account while the real files live in their default locations inside the repository.