This seems like a terrible idea.. imagine framework A that has a throwaway folder called ".blah"—now imagine framework B that has a very important configuration

This seems like a terrible idea.. imagine framework A that has a throwaway folder called ".blah"—now imagine framework B that has a very important configuration folder called ".blah"—so at best this would only cover IDE and OS stuff. But that stuff ends up being like what, 10 lines at most?