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soraminazuki on Feb 18, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making macOS Apps Uninstallable

Homebrew Cask can remove application-generated files if you pass the --zap option to "brew rm". Cask definitions include a list of known paths to those.

eviks on Feb 18, 2023 [–]

Yeah, unless the definition doesn't include something

soraminazuki on Feb 18, 2023 | [–]

It does, a lot of the time though. Casks are actively maintained and adding a missed file to the list is only a single pull request away.

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