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		captn3m0 on June 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dotfiles and dev tools provisioned by Ansible You should take a look at GNU stow. I also felt the same frustration as my bootstrap script got ugly and uglier. And then I shifted to stow. And now its just a single line: `stow * --target ~` With respect to ansible, I've been thinking of managing my laptop using just ansible to install new packages, and update configuration (apache, sshd and so on). Kinda like chef-solo, but using ansible. Has anyone done anything like that?

palcu on June 22, 2014 [–]

Thanks for the tip about Stow, never knew about it and I will research it.

Ansible can be used for your local machine without any central server by default. I use this[0] playbook to update my packages daily on my DigitalOcean machines.

[0]: https://github.com/palcu/dotfiles/blob/master/playbooks/task...

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