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Where the wind takes us next year no turtle can tell
But we'll still be at home, come high water or hell,
Because home is wherever you carry your shell.
-- Windward, by Stephen Savitzky, 2015

This project contains a set of configuration files, with Makefiles for setup and installation, that allow you to set up a home directory exactly the way I like it, with a single command. Unlike its predecessor, which was very specific to me, it's meant to be reasonably general -- it expects to find its repository on github, leaves your .mailrc and .signature files alone, and preserves most of your old configuration in case you didn't really mean it.

On the other hand, it still sets up my favorite aliases, gnome configuration options, emacs options, and xmonad.hs. Forking is not only encouraged, it's practically mandatory if you want to stay sane.

That said, it also has provisions for personal and machine-local customizations. I first started putting those in to accommodate laptop and desktop systems with a wide range of screen sizes; it's gotten somewhat more general since then.

Note: this file is meant for incorporation into my website. If you're looking at it on github, you may already have noticed that it's mostly a duplicate of README.md.

Annotated Contents

Files

bootstrap.sh

This is the shell script that I use to configure a system. Set up your ssh keys, and say:
wget -O - https://github.com/ssavitzky/Honu/bootstrap.sh | bash
or something of the sort. You can also clone the repo and source it, but that takes half the fun out of it.

MIT_LICENSE.txt

The license for this project.

Makefile

Once things get bootstrapped, the entire configuration process is run via the Makefile. make install is the main target; eventually there will be targets for partial installs, e.g. on tiny systems or systems where I don't have sudo access.

to.do

My to-do list, of course. The format is trivial: an open circle (lowercase "o") is something that's not started yet; a period is something in progress, and a filled circle (asterisk) is finished. "~" indicates something I've decided not to do, and "?" indicates something I'm dithering about. "&" indicates something I did that I wasn't planning to do. Eventually finished items move to a "done" section.

Directories

bin/

Programs. Mostly small shell scripts; I don't think there are any actual binary files in there at the moment. Some are symlinks into other parts of the tree, e.g. dotfiles/_xmonad. No doubt many are useless at this point; some date back to the days of usenet.

dotconfig/

Configuration files and directories that go into ~/.config/. These are symlinked so as not to conflict with the stuff already there.

dotfiles/

Configuration files that go into the home directory. They are symlinked rather than being copied.

emacs/

Like it says on the tin: configuration files for emacs. This doesn't include .emacs, which you'll find in dotfiles.

local/

Files that are expected to be edited on a per-system or per-user basis. Initial versions are created by make install

opt/

The Makefile here lets you download and install various optional programs from elsenet. (Right now the only one is dzen2 -- older releases of Debian and Ubuntu don't have one that's recent enough to include all the features I want to use with xmonad.)

setup/

Scripts for configuring the things that can't (easily) be installed by simply symlinking a dotfile. This includes a lot of Gnome options. There are also files with a -pkgs suffix, that install programs using apt.

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