Excluding 3rd party tools like Homebrew, one dosn't. The native 'package manager...

_2z1p · on Feb 16, 2023

macOS also has .pkg installer packages that are native. The only issue is that there is no uninstall functionality built in to them unless the package provides their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installer_(macOS)

mdaniel · on Feb 16, 2023

That actually bugged me so much that I made a script to use the manifest to blow away declared files and dirs

    PKGID="${1:-}"

    PKG_ROOT="$(pkgutil --pkg-info "$PKGID" \
        | awk -F: '/location:/{print $2}' \
        | sed -e 's,^[ \t]*,/,')"
    
    pkgutil --only-files --files "$PKGID" \
        | join_paths_0 "$PKG_ROOT" \
        | xargs -0 $dry_run rm -v
    pkgutil --only-dirs --files "$PKGID" \
        | sort -r \
        | join_paths_0 "$PKG_ROOT" \
        | xargs -0 $dry_run rmdir
    pkgutil --forget "$PKGID"

It still leaves detritus, but is better than "oh well, guess I'm stuck with Rando Thing 0.9beta forever"