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by pornel 1189 days ago
Yeah, it's a bit alien on macOS. There is no good mapping for some of these folders.

For example, on macOS application configuration isn't even supposed to be done directly via application-specific files. macOS has its User Defaults subsystem, with `defaults read`/`defaults write` commands. And of course this isn't usable by typical command-line tools that don't have a Bundle ID.
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larusso 1189 days ago
The system that you mentioned is specifically for macOS Desktop apps. I think even Apple is drawing a line there. I don‘t know of any Apple commandline tool which has a configuration in plist format etc. But I might be wrong.
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pornel 1189 days ago
Apple ships some BSD and Linux tools (openssh, git) without changing how they store configuration, but anything written with macOS in mind has other methods. For example, Apple's command-line build tools for Xcode inherit GUI Xcode's settings and project files that are plists. launchctl uses XML plists in ~/Library instead of /etc. Daemons like Spotlight and Time Machine are configured via plist-editing GUIs or mdutil/tmutil commands.
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