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macOS also has .pkg installer packages that are native. The only issue is that there is no uninstall functionality built in to them unless the package provides

• mdaniel 4y ago
  That actually bugged me so much that I made a script to use the manifest to blow away declared files and dirs PKGID="${1:-}" PKG_ROOT="$(pkgutil --pkg-info "$PKGID" \ | awk -F: '/location:/{print $2}' \ | sed -e 's,^[ \t]*,/,')" pkgutil --only-files --files "$PKGID" \ | join_paths_0 "$PKG_ROOT" \ | xargs -0 $dry_run rm -v pkgutil --only-dirs --files "$PKGID" \ | sort -r \ | join_paths_0 "$PKG_ROOT" \ | xargs -0 $dry_run rmdir pkgutil --forget "$PKGID" It still leaves detritus, but is better than "oh well, guess I'm stuck with Rando Thing 0.9beta forever"