[kdrag0n]

Dev here — I've been meaning to update the Homebrew cask to be more complete on zap, but there's a good reason that all of these are needed:

- ~/.orbstack

- Docker context that points to OrbStack (for CLI)

- "source ~/.orbstack/shell/init.zsh" in .zprofile/bash_profile (to add CLI tools to PATH)

- ~/.ssh/config (for convenient SSH to OrbStack's Linux machines)

- Symlinks to CLI tools in ~/.local/bin, ~/bin, or /usr/local/bin depending on what's available (to add CLI tools to existing shells on first install — only one of these is used, not all)

- Standard macOS paths (~/Library/{Application Support, Preferences, Caches, HTTPStorages, Saved Application State, WebKit})

- Keychain items (for secure storage)

- ~/OrbStack (empty dir for mounting shared files)

- /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools (to create symlinks for compatibility)

Not sure what the best solution is for people who don't use Homebrew to uninstall it. I've never liked separate uninstaller apps, and it's not possible to detect removal from /Applications when the app isn't running.

[xlii]

IMO documenting this (and uninstall section in GUI with link) would be enough for me. Used that and never felt neglected by devs.

And cough since we’re at with - did you consider Nixpkgs distribution?

I’m slowly moving deeper and deeper into ecosystem and use Home Manager for utilities that I use often (and use nix shell/nix run for one offs). Some packages are strictly GUI and while they aren’t handled flawlessly (self-updaters) it’s nice to have them on a single list.

Yet based on your list it’s a definitely a nixventure…

[mdaniel]

> I've never liked separate uninstaller apps

And yet, you are the only(?) one with that knowledge, so the alternative seems to be replying to HN threads with a curated list of things that a user must now open iTerm2 and handle by themselves. Something, unless I'm mistaken, that computers are really good at doing (Gatekeeper and privilege elevation nonsense aside)

Even just linking to the zap portion of your brew cask could go a long way since it would be the most succinct manifest if I correctly understand what it does

[e40]

Thanks. I was able to clean up more items.

I agree this should be documented, but I still appreciate uninstallers.

Also, I'm a little confused about your statement:

> Not sure what the best solution is for people who don't use Homebrew to uninstall it.

You said at the start you've "been meaning to update the Homebrew cask to be more complete on zap" ... does that mean Homebrew uninstall will not do a complete job?