support for /usr/bin about mackup HOT 5 CLOSED

The intent is good, but the idea of mackup is to focus on config, /usr/bin belongs to the system and is there on a clean install.
A better idea would be to sync /usr/local/bin but this is handled by other tools like homebrew

To solve this, I usually create and sync a ~/bin folder where I put my executables, but it's pure personal behavior and I wasn't sure it was worth putting in mackup.

Would it solve your problem ?

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hey @lra thanks for your suggestion, I was indeed doing almost the same by pointing my PATH to $HOME/Dropbox/Mackup/bin, it would be really good to have a Mackup sync to ~/bin as you've mentioned for sure. That would make it easier to manage and backup my own exectuables. Also, it is the same suggestion SublimeText recommends for their command line executable which I think it makes a lot of sense.

I think this kind of control in Mackup would also open the doors for implementations of ~/lib for Node.js NPM modules as well later on. But the bin solution would be really great for now.

Thanks again

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Merged in, thx

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Damn I forgot that I can't sync ~/bin yet, as I enforce a 0600 mode on synced files, which will remove the +x bit to your bin files.

I'll add this to the TODO and come with some way to do this later

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Thanks for having a look at this @lra, I hope this can be something manageable for a future update. for now I will be doing the linking process myself then.

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