Exactly. That's how I managed an app (basically a port of lots of stuff from Linux) for macOS years ago. I depended upon MacPorts as my build system, lots of pa

Exactly. That's how I managed an app (basically a port of lots of stuff from Linux) for macOS years ago. I depended upon MacPorts as my build system, lots of patching to match our in-house build on Linux... but wrapped an entire Python etc universe inside the app.