Create bash script to quickly create and download dotfiles or a specific rice

[miroesli]

• consider different scripts for different OSs
• consider using stow to just create symbolic links
  • or maybe have the option to do either?

[miroesli]

Take some inspiration from oh-my-zsh to use curl or wget for install and backup existing config.

install.sh Current thought is to create an install script which saves current dotfiles to directory and then replace with the ones specified through the install script. Should include installing packages and themes. Be able to select which configs to exclude like when installing pacman packages or select which packages to install.

uninstall.sh Overwrite current configs with backed up configs. Potentially selectively choose which ones to use?

update.sh Run on refreshing i3 with mod+shift+r and update only the configs installed.

[miroesli]

dotfile example oh-my-zsh example

[miroesli]

Updated Idea

Install.sh

• Include all packages by default with some exclusions that are not packages. This is because in most cases users will want to just try the whole thing out first since it is easier
• Allow users to have the configs copied (default since stow might not be installed) or use stow which creates hard links recursively for each package
• Allow user to choose to backup their files
• Create a base install script which first selects which dotfile configuration to use which then runs the current install script respectively.

Update.sh

• Not needed, can probably just copy/restow (install) all files on top again without checking if out of date for now.
  • Need to figure out how to restow files if they already exist though
• If there are new packages used in dotfiles, it is caught by the install.

Uninstall.sh

• Remove all packages which were installed and move/rename backups back again