GNU Stow with steroids!

Bookkeeper works as a symbolic link manager with some more flexibility, making the management of dotfiles easy and painless.

I thought that managing my dotfiles with GNU Stow was easier than handling ln -s myself, but still some things were missing for me, such as knowing which packages I already installed and recursively updating nested folders.

With 5 chars one can know which packages are already installed and which are not.

$ bk ls
PACKAGE     INSTALLED
irssi       no
tmux        no
vim         yes
zsh         yes

Updating recursively is also very easy:

$ bk sync
Syncing package 'vim'.
Done
Syncing package 'zsh'.
Added new folder:   zsh/.zsh
Added new file:     zsh/.zshrc
Sync complete!

New features will be implemented in the future, but keep in mind that bookkeeper, differently than GNU Stow, is designed for handling dotfiles, not packages in general.