I think you're describing Homebrew. Actually whenever I'm building and installing something in ~/.local (which I do fairly frequently if I don't install it via

I think you're describing Homebrew. Actually whenever I'm building and installing something in ~/.local (which I do fairly frequently if I don't install it via apt-get, I'm not a /usr/local fan), I wish I were using something like Homebrew. Just something to manage whats in ~/.local, so I can remove things one package at a time. It'd be nice to have a lightweight version of checkinstall for non-root usage, for example.