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Speaking of which:

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All these stupid .dot files for every last application are really annoying. .xinitrc must be saying "There goes the neighborhood."

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No kidding. IMO it's long past time to replicate / in $HOME. I tend to do this already with ~/bin and ~/tmp, and sometimes ~/etc, ~/lib, and ~/var. Dotfile propogation started bugging me years ago, and it's not getting any better. Worse is that there are now dotfile aggregators (.gnome, .Gabber, .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome_private, GNUstep, ...).

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