X-Git-Url: https://iankelling.org/git/?p=distro-setup;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=a4a6885e58c456665a59327cd66d702d5078b910;hp=1633f7853cc48802d84b461bccfb3c32745cd45c;hb=8a6b446c7e336596af614c853e1c6177e55a7983;hpb=d77584647b535c33bc1044cd2f8f18ad24cca813 diff --git a/README b/README index 1633f78..a4a6885 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,8 +1,36 @@ -Misc configs & ~1k loc in bashrc +~4k loc bash, configs for my computers -Part of how I run GNU/Linux. I try fully automate my systems and store -all configs and scripts, except private info at +Initial os install is also automated using a separate repo called +automated-distro-installer, also at iankelling.org/git. Beyond the +initial bare os, the rest is automated from scripts in this repo. + +This is not meant for other people to run verbatum, but for them to read +and copy the good parts. It has dependencies on other repos at https://iankelling.org/git. +The main thing missing for someone else to use things is the expected +location of repos in the filesystem. So you would need to lookout for +paths starting with /a and adjust them. + +Background: reasoning behind using /a: The home directory is typically +used for local software development, but I use paths like /a instead, +for the following reasons: + +1. I want to run code directly from where I work on it, instead of +always having to create and use some install process. If that code is in +a home directory, and you want to run it as root (especially in contexts +where SUDO_USER is not set, like cron/systemd), you have to hardcode the +username for /home/username, or create some install process where that +username is saved somewhere, and then you are stuck with a single +username. If it ever got packaged for a gnu/linux distro, it would rely +on a hardcoded path with no username in it, so let's just do that. + +2. The home directory is inconvenient. It's filled with a bunch of junk +you don't care about, which makes directory listing horrible, makes it so +you can't back it up easily (for example, gvfs mountpoint in it breaks +lots of things), and has things you don't want to backup. So, you could +use a subdirectory. But typing /s is much faster than ~/s and in every +root context, /home/username/s. + Please email me if you have a patches, bugs, feedback, or republish this somewhere else: Ian Kelling .