Re: Moving files out of PREFIX on macOS

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2026-10-01 at 09:24 BST, ivan%ivanpollak.com@localhost wrote:

> I have implemented both INSTALL and DEINSTALL scripts in a fork:
> For .app: https://git.sr.ht/~arcathrax/pkgsrc/tree/main/item/x11/alacritty
> For a font: https://git.sr.ht/~arcathrax/pkgsrc/tree/main/item/fonts/nerd-fonts-CodeNewRoman

I mentioned this on IRC a while back when you first enquired about it, 
but for the benefit of others..

I think the way I'd go about handling this would be more along the lines 
of pkg_alternatives.  One of the main issues with putting this in 
INSTALL and DEINSTALL scripts is that it makes opt-in or opt-out harder 
for users, as well as being a bit less flexible, as everything is 
hard-coded directly into the binary packages.

If we instead had some metadata in the package like we do with 
+ALTERNATIVES, then we could have an external program that the user can 
then run to select which applications end up in an Applications 
directory, configure whether they should go into /Applications or 
~/Applications, choose which version should be selected if there are 
multiple choices, etc.

I also said I don't use any .app myself from pkgsrc, so it's not 
something I'd be interested in working on, but would be happy to review 
if someone else wanted to take it on.

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