pcahyna

> Even if we removed the handling of EXCLUDE_RECREATE during the layout recreation and let it work only during layout save (which should be enough IMO) Another option would be...

quote of my reply: @jsmeix I actually thought the opposite - I thought that mappings are being applied to configuration values at more places, I am now surprised that there...

> usr/share/rear/skel/default/root/.vimrc > is not in dist/rear-2.7.tar.gz Do you know why?

I guess it is because of `--exclude=".??*"` passed to tar, which originates in 56959b54fc by @schlomo .

Unfortunately, if we remove this, I suspect we will get unwanted stuff in the build, like `.github`, `.fmf` and `.shellcheckrc`.

If I remove `--exclude=".??*"` from the Makefile, I get this difference in the resulting tar : ```diff --- unpatched.list 2024-12-18 15:26:29.207157564 +0100 +++ patched.list 2024-12-18 15:25:45.518053248 +0100 @@ -462,6 +462,7...

> If the `.vimrc` dotfile would be in such a skel archive then it wouldn't be filtered out in the `make dist` process. Not sure if I get it. What...

But what's the problem with dotfiles in the first place? Is it related to the skel archive or not (if it also works for non-dotfiles)?

> I think the only "problem" is, that we filter out dotfiles in the `make dist` process. Let's stop filtering them, then? ```diff diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 731c05af7..54f5d4ee1 100644...

> Therefore we have the ability to use an **archive** as skel, see https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/usr/share/rear/skel/Debian/default.tar.gz By the way (not related to the original problem anymore), having a gzipped archive in our...