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I manage them using git and stow.
Stow is very useful, but a bit unknown. Hard to explain in a Lemmy post, but basically it helps you manage symlinks between your git repo directory and your $HOME.
You can "install" and "uninstall" configs by managing the symlinks with stow.
+1 for stow, it's so simple yet powerful.
I do the same plus a python script to automate the stowing. This plus konsave plus a script to install packages and it is a breeze to reinstall the OS
Same but with the addition of a Brewfile to manage installed apps/CLIs (supports both Mac and Linux)