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I feel the same.

All these smart small tools are amazing, but they suppose the user has only one computer and does everything on it. so he can just install once and that's it.

I normally use 4 different desktops and 2 VPSs weekly. Although I tend to do most of the work in one of the VPSs, the more I customize it with tools like this, the more all the other computers will miss things.

What is the solution?

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I found that learning ansible and storing my machine customization as a deployable playbook was totally worth the effort involved.

Does that ansible thing support incremental deploys? Such that installing 'jo' here will idempotently install it on other machines?

Late to the party but yes. The idea behind ansible seems to be (I'm new to using it) that you can run the command a million times over a million machines and it'll only install new things to the machines that don't already have it

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