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Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

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Re: Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

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Post by jorvi »

colordrops wrote: post #13
drdexebtjl wrote: post #5

I had similar problems with GNU Stow, but switched to Nix and Home Manager instead. I think Chezmoi's templates and file naming conventions don't click for me, but it's nice to see a good variety in this problem space.

People shy from Nix because of supposed complexity but it really is the only real solution to this sort of problem. It's not really that much more difficult to learn, and in fact if you are willing, AI works really well generating nix config.

Nix's complexity isn't with itself, its if you try to step one bit off the beaten path where it immediately starts to grate.

Re: Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

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Post by halostatue »

pkulak wrote: post #18

Once you hit the Chezmoi stage, you're only about 6 months from Nix and Home Manager. I mean, why climb _almost_ to the top of a mountain and then just sit down?

I've bounced off Nix every time I tried it, before I even started trying something like Home Manager.

I've been using (and contributing to) chezmoi for ~6 years now. Given that it has first-class integration with secrets managers, I suspect that it does things that Home Manager can't.

Re: Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

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Post by halostatue »

jdxcode wrote: post #28

It’s quite new but I’ve been cooking up some new bootstrapping features with mise which people may find relevant here: https://mise.jdx.dev/bootstrap.html It’s for things like dotfiles, apt/brew packages, and LaunchAgents/systemd. EDIT: I feel a little bad having hijacked this, as someone that hears a lot of opinions about devtools I can definitely say chezmoi is a darling of the community and I highly recommend chec…

Are there plans to support MacPorts as a packaging system? I only use Homebrew for casks, because I find it unreliable for core development tools.

Re: Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

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Post by RunningDroid »

shevy-java wrote: post #11

I hate . dirs. In fact, I hate them so much that I don't use them. My configuration lives primarily in .yml files. These are kept super-simple. When need be and another format is required, ruby autogenerates these for me. For instance, all my bash aliases are kept in .yml files which then get turned into bash rc files or any other target format for other shells. Same for most of my other configuration too - not alway…

You might like xdg-ninja‡ then, it tells you what program put which item in your $HOME and how to move it to ~/.config or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

‡: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

Re: Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

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Post by jdxcode »

halostatue wrote: post #34
jdxcode wrote: post #28

It’s quite new but I’ve been cooking up some new bootstrapping features with mise which people may find relevant here: https://mise.jdx.dev/bootstrap.html It’s for things like dotfiles, apt/brew packages, and LaunchAgents/systemd. EDIT: I feel a little bad having hijacked this, as someone that hears a lot of opinions about devtools I can definitely say chezmoi is a darling of the community and I highly recommend chec…

Are there plans to support MacPorts as a packaging system? I only use Homebrew for casks, because I find it unreliable for core development tools.

Haven't looked into it but agents are so good at this I bet it'll be trivial to add

Re: Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

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Post by chuckadams »

shevy-java wrote: post #11

I hate . dirs. In fact, I hate them so much that I don't use them. My configuration lives primarily in .yml files. These are kept super-simple. When need be and another format is required, ruby autogenerates these for me. For instance, all my bash aliases are kept in .yml files which then get turned into bash rc files or any other target format for other shells. Same for most of my other configuration too - not alway…

Found the Kubernetes guy

;)

Re: Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

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Post by sgarland »

I learned about Stow after I found out about Chezmoi, and felt like Chezmoi was the better fit for me. I make heavy use of templating to keep work / personal aliases and functions separate, and could not be happier with the outcome.

Re: Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

jdxcode wrote: post #28

It’s quite new but I’ve been cooking up some new bootstrapping features with mise which people may find relevant here: https://mise.jdx.dev/bootstrap.html It’s for things like dotfiles, apt/brew packages, and LaunchAgents/systemd. EDIT: I feel a little bad having hijacked this, as someone that hears a lot of opinions about devtools I can definitely say chezmoi is a darling of the community and I highly recommend chec…

I am quite intrigued. With the sorry state of security, I am doing everything in VMs and have been trying to settle on the best way to setup a new machine. The process is so clunky that I end up defaulting to bigger instances than I should (more pets than cattle).

Being able to centralize this config is far more attractive than having a separate Ansible or pyinfra process.

Edit: The docs on this are very encouraging! However, it is not clear- what is experimental? Anything notably buggy or churning? Any far off features you hope to implement some day?

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