Improving my dotfiles manager with pipx and inline dependency metadata
I have a (somewhat unnecessarily) custom setup for managing my dotfiles and I made a nice improvement to it today. How it works The dotfiles are managed by a Python script. In broad strokes, the script will: read a TOML file locate the configured paths create symlinks, based on custom marker text in the filenames, for files in subdirectories under the configured paths1 If there’s a conflict (i.e. two configured paths provide the same symlink target location), the TOML file contains the resolution for it (i.e. specifies one of the paths as the “winner” for that file). If a resolution doesn’t exist, the script errors out. ...