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		bmicraft on April 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tips on how to structure your home directory (2023... And those should be avoided as much as possible because they're always problematic and break randomly. How could they not break, when the package manager doesn't even know they exist or what they depend on?

sevagh on April 19, 2024 [–]

Well now we're going around in circles:

1. External install scripts that put stuff in system directories are sloppy and we don't like them

2. External install scripts that put stuff clearly-named non-hidden directory in your $HOME are better than the above

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