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It's a bit weird to act as if macOS didn't have installers and uninstallers. For one thing, there's the App store. And then, probably most developers use someth
by Tainnor 3y ago
It's a bit weird to act as if macOS didn't have installers and uninstallers. For one thing, there's the App store. And then, probably most developers use something like homebrew.
What you describe works for a specific kind of app, the ones that can be easily sandboxed and don't have shared dependencies.
- catiopatio 3y agoThe App Store literally just places an application bundle in /Applications. Homebrew and MacPorts are used for Unix software that requires a Unix-style package management.
- r00fus 3y agoMost of my apps in my daily driver Mac were installed this way. Notable exceptions: Microsoft office, Google Drive.
- ubermonkey 3y agoSounds like you don't understand that Mac world very well. That's okay. D/ls from the store do what I describe above. The overwhelming majority of Mac apps going back to the pre-MacOS / OSX days work exactly as I described above.