Another Dotfiles Repo

Work in-progress:

• Implement XDG Base Directory Specification.
• Investigate using stow to manage configuration files under $HOME.
• Decide how to handle the fact that OSX terminals are login terminals by default.
• Reconsider sourcing .local version of bash files after the standard (to allow local overrides)

Goals

• All elements should be optional and easy to enable or revert.
• Configuration should be as minimal as possible.
• Configuration should prefer installed tools/utilities
• Access to overriden system utilities should still possible.
• It should be possible, and easy, to reset the system
  • Remove symbolic links that were created
  • Replace original files
  • Remove the cloned repo
  • Uninstall applications installed by Homebrew
  • Uninstall Homebrew

Organization and Usage

I want to have symbolic links reference files in this repo. Changes that are made on the system should be committed and pushed back up to the repo.

For now; linking, backing up original files, and invoking the provisioning scripts that install a base set of utilities are going to be a manual process. I looked at Dotbot.

This repo tries to imitate the Linux Filesystem Heirarchy Standard to achieve a sensible orgnization. To that end, the repo can be cloned into a directory named ~/.local to achive a layout that should be familiar.

Setting up a new system

On a brand new system:

1. Create your user
2. Install Homebrew
3. Copy or create ssh keys and configure GitHub (if needed)
4. Clone this repo and ...

• Run OSX defaults configuration (get a backup first)
• Run base brew installation scripts
• Run select application installation scripts
• Link select configuration files (move originals first)

Updating an existing system

TODO ...

Things that are missing

... a lot, but this is a start.

Check out these references for further brew inspiration

• https://gist.github.com/kevinelliott/3135044
• https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles
• https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles
• http://blog.apps.npr.org/2013/06/06/how-to-setup-a-developers-environment.html
• https://github.com/donnemartin/dev-setup
• https://dotfiles.github.io