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drjeats on Aug 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: OS X Command Line Utilities

If only the native package manager wasn't write-only for pkg installers. I use Homebrew for its `uninstall` command.

bluejekyll on Aug 30, 2015 [–]

Wow, I had no idea... clearly I don't deploy software to my Mac often enough. NeXT had an uninstall, I assumed that carried over.

The pkg manager does track all the files it installs, so it's a trivial script to go "uninstall" them. Anyway, good reason to stick with Homebrew.

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