[lug] Personal 'layer'

[durist at frii.com]

A while back I was contemplating trying to use the package manager to create 
packages containing my personal files, plus a sort of overlay package 
containing any customizations to the system (i.e. config files in /etc). My 
thought was I could then just automate the package creation process and back 
up those packages every night, and it would make system upgrades very easy.

I know this is probably an abuse of what the package manager is meant to do, 
but it just seems like such a neat solution. 

Has anybody tried this? 
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Dan Urist
durist at frii.com