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Scoop on Windows and Homebrew on Mac are quite similar and they work just fine.

I wouldn't call such tools "package managers" but "installation and update managers", they have some functionality overlap with tools like apt or pacman, but in the end they serve a different purpose, installing tools and application on the command line and keeping track of what has been installed.

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I'm not 100% sure about Homebrew, but Scoop uses the "portable" installers every time it's possible, trying to put all the files in a well defined position, controlled by Scoop itself. I think that Homebrew (not Cask) does a very similar thing. What this Windows package manager does is running classical installers and there's absolutely no way to know exactly what the installer is going to do. Homebrew Cask follows a similar approach, but thanks to how .app and .pkg work it's actually possible to manage the uninstallation quite well

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