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I gave GNU Stow a try, but thought it did too much.

Ended up using dotfiles (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dotfiles). My dotfiles (https://github.com/cjoelrun/dotfiles). I handle system specific stuff in each config: OS checks in zsh, emacs, tmux configs. Allows me to move between OSX and Arch linux.

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> I gave GNU Stow a try, but thought it did too much.

Not to argue with your experience, but it's hard to see how it could do less—it literally just creates a bunch of symlinks. (It seems to have grown a bunch of options since I last looked at it, but it seems that they can all be ignored if you want simplicity. (I've only ever used `-d`, `-t`, and `-D`.)

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