200920.2 · 92db3c9339d8035befe4c045dc68fce75956071c

system: re-arrange system configuration structure

Basically, for system configuration, we want to check all of that into source control. Until now, I had just been sporadically maintaining system configuration on each machine, but this has become unwieldy. It also guarantees that I will forget to copy something whenever I wipe a machine.

Given that my Archlinux install on my laptop is FUBAR, I'm trying to start this process right. The general scheme is:

$HOME/etc/path/to/config-file-as-directory/{default,krusty,...}

Where `/etc/path/to/config-file-as-directory` is a directory that refers to a concrete file path in the /etc directory. Inside this directory is an optional file named `default`, along with other optional files named by hostname, e.g., `krusty`. If a hostname file is present, then that file is symlinked to the corresponding config file location. Otherwise the `default` file is. If no files are present, then no symlinks are created.

This simple scheme permits per-system configuration without losing track of anything.

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