is the number of dot files a measure of the darkness of Linux?:-D

From	Patrice Duroux <patrice.duroux@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	is the number of dot files a measure of the darkness of Linux?:-D
Date	2021-05-16 20:50 +0200
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Hi,

1. I was wondering about the presence of the /etc/.pwd.lock file on my
system.
For sure 'apt-file search /etc/.pwd.lock' is no help, but 'man -K
.pwd.lock' do.
I also searched the Debian user mailing list and found some relevant
discussion on this file.
Querying the Debian Code Search was also very interesting.

Could there be a Debian web page to handle some sort of global search?
I think this could be useful also for beginner not familiar with the
diversity of Debian services, no?
It will be for instance client to Debian Packages Search, Debian Manpages
and Code Search, (also Debian Wiki?) that would provide at least links if
topics are found in each of them.
May be user would be able to select their targets.

2. After this I was curious about the overall content of all the packages
on any dot files (including directories). For that I used the following to
2 commands:
# the packages concerned
apt-file --filter-origins Debian --regex search '/\.' | cut -d ':' -f 1 |
uniq -c | sort -h
# the top 10 of dot files
apt-file --filter-origins Debian --regex search '/\.' | cut -d ':' -f 2 |
grep -o '/\..*' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rh | head -10

They are very diverse and include some .git* ones. Are they always useful
to provide?
Is this something related to the Debian Policy? tracked by Debian
Maintainer and/or in the scope of some QA tools?

My opinion (as a sysadmin) is that I am not a big fan of dot files and
moreover when they are not intended to be reserved (better restricted?) to
the userland.

Cheers,
Patrice

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is the number of dot files a measure of the darkness of Linux?:-D Patrice Duroux <patrice.duroux@gmail.com> - 2021-05-16 20:50 +0200
  Re: is the number of dot files a measure of the darkness of  Linux?:-D Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2021-05-16 22:20 +0200
  Re: is the number of dot files a measure of the darkness of Linux?:-D David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-17 03:50 +0200
    Re: Re: is the number of dot files a measure of the darkness of  Linux?:-D Patrice Duroux <patrice.duroux@gmail.com> - 2021-05-27 21:20 +0200

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