Demo: Manage dotfiles with GNU Stow
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In this screen cast, I offer an introduction to GNU Stow. Its manpage describes it as a âsoftware package installation managerâ.
I personally use stow to exercise centralised control over sets of
custom configuration files. It makes things considerably easier,
especially when working with complex directory structures, such as
those found in my dotfiles.
In the video I also make reference to my latest book, âProtâs Dots For Debianâ (PDFD) which contains a section on how to use GNU Stow for the purposes of reproducing my custom desktop session.