Interesting! Before I read your comment I was not aware that dotfile management is actually a new/niche use of GNU Stow and its original purpose to co-locate/distribute software packages and their data.
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I should mention that one of my colleagues wrote a pure-C version of stow (available at https://www.gnusto.com/), to avoid the dependency on PERL, which made out bootstrap process for a new platform a bit easier.