[aur-requests] [PRQ#32175] Deletion Request for dot-tools Accepted

[Felipe Contreras]

Hello,

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 5:36 PM Muflone <muflone at archlinux.org> wrote:

> > This tool is to help manage *everyone*'s dotfiles, not just mine.
> >
> > And as you can see in the README file:
> >
> > Tools for managing dotfiles using git.
>
> Currently the dot-setup script simply clones your dot-team git
> repository into ~/.local/share/dot-files
>
> This is simply a personal dot files collection, not a tool to manage
> your dot files.

As I already explained: the dot-team repository does *NOT* contain my
personal dotfiles.

These are my dotfiles:

https://github.com/felipec/dotfiles

These are *NOT* my dotfiles:

https://github.com/felipec/dot-team

Yes, in v0.1 dot-setup clones the dot-team repository, which does
*NOT* contain my personal dotfiles, but you do not need to use
dot-setup, you can use dot-init instead.

But in fact I just pushed v0.2 so now you can call dot-setup with
*any* repository, here:

dot-setup https://github.com/DoomHammer/dotfiles

That works, and they are not the dot-team dotfiles, nor my personal dotfiles.

Once again: you do not need to use dot-setup, you do not need to use dot-team.

dot-tools can be used with *any* dotfiles, not just the ones in the
dot-team repository.

> The rest of the script are simple oneline bash scripts which calls git
> commands

Yes, they are simple, simple code is good in my book.

dot-tools does essentially the same thing as yadm [1], except yadm
does it in a convoluted way, and dot-tools does it in a simple way.

I do not think complexity should be a requirement for AUR packages.
makepkg itself is a very simple script, and that's a good thing.

The important thing isn't if the software is complex, the important
thing is if the software is *useful*.

Do you think dot-tools isn't useful? If so, why?

[1] https://yadm.io

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Felipe Contreras