on gentoo for example I have accrued a few files under /etc/portage that to my knowledge just have to live there…

right now I basically rely on my backups for this. but maybe somebody knows a clever way to handle this?

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    1 year ago

    Seems like an odd software choice to create actual dotfiles under /etc. Often files there have much the same name as a user’s dotfiles but without the dot. Thinking of things like /etc/profile vs ~/.profile and so on.

    Without knowing precisely why those decisions were taken (good reason? ignorance? insanity?) it’s not clear what steps to take.

    Vaguely leaning towards symlinking or hardlinking but precisely what to do and which way around is still unclear.

    Do those dotfiles have your user permissions or are they owned by a system account like root?