Bower + Symlink = Hate

I'm used to manage my dotfiles through a git repo and symlink the repo's files to my home directory.
Bower is a front-end dependcy manager which can be configured with a .bowerrc file located in your home. Today I had the regret to constat that bower doesn't support symlinks in the configuration bootstrap stage.

	[user@host$]$ bower install
	/home/daniel/npm/node_modules/bower/node_modules/bower-config/lib/util/rc.js:55
	throw error;
	^
	Error: Unable to parse /home/daniel/.bowerrc: Unexpected token !
	at parse (/home/daniel/npm/node_modules/bower/node_modules/bower-config/lib/util/rc.js:48:21)
	at json (/home/daniel/npm/node_modules/bower/node_modules/bower-config/lib/util/rc.js:70:12)
	at rc (/home/daniel/npm/node_modules/bower/node_modules/bower-config/lib/util/rc.js:29:22)
	at Config.load (/home/daniel/npm/node_modules/bower/node_modules/bower-config/lib/Config.js:14:20)
	at Function.Config.read (/home/daniel/npm/node_modules/bower/node_modules/bower-config/lib/Config.js:49:19)
	at readCachedConfig (/home/daniel/npm/node_modules/bower/lib/config.js:21:51)
	at defaultConfig (/home/daniel/npm/node_modules/bower/lib/config.js:11:24)
	at Object.<anonymous> (/home/daniel/npm/node_modules/bower/lib/index.js:40:32)
	at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
	at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)

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The "!"token comes from the hexa decode of the symlink

	213c73796d6c696e6b3efffe2f006300
	79006700640072006900760065002f00
	63002f0042005500530054004f004f00
	4c0053002f0064006f00740066006900
	6c00650073002f007a00730068007200
	63000000
	Equals
	!<symlink>ÿþ/c?ygdrive/?c/BUSTOO?LS/dotfi?les/zshr?c

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This seems to be confirmed by this comment
https://github.com/bower/bower/issues/730#issuecomment-24390523

So until a cleaner solution, I have to copy the file from my github repo to my home dir.