Those configuration files are for managing system’s package manager, so I don’t think $HOME would be a better place.

From lack of a better solution, I would symlink the folder or use stow --target /etc flag if you use stow for managing dotfiles.

Do note that it won’t work well with flatpak Firefox: https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/09/25/firefox-gnome-shell-search-provider/

Gentoo and Alpine are both really great distributions.

And with lots of polish and convenient features.

Yes, I thrive in it.

Thank you for indulging me! I tried Alpine for a moment with Sway but it was really bare and I had some issues with setting up seatd and/or elogind to ensure some usual niceties like auto-mounting of usb drives etc. I was curious how is daily-driving it experienced by others.

How do you handle lack of systemd? Do you use elogind or seatd? Do you package some things yourself considering Alpine isn’t popular as a desktop distribution?

That doesn’t mean it is the only option.

But there are other options with Silverblue.