Dot files, get them out of the way

[Wilko Fokken <wfokken@web.de>]

Moin mitnanner,

As a (private) text prone Debian user, I like having my dot files
out of the way and not stumbling between my working files.

On the other hand, I dislike hiding them by file managers,
because I want to discover them early at possibly wrong places.

So, by fumbling and messing with some shell scripts,
I managed to get my dot files:

into "/root" for owner "root"
and
into "$HOME/.rc" for ordinary users.


My question:

Is there a better way to accomplish this
by a direct changing of the system defaults?


Thanks for your sugestions

Wilko