Support `post-install`?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript, zsh
Domain
build-system

Research direction

No implementation file or test is named. Start by tracing how package.yaml and post-install behavior are handled, including how the package build environment's $HOME differs from the user's home. Before implementation, define the supported post-install actions, home-directory substitution semantics, and what completion and safety checks should cover.

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Description

question

I encountered this issue while packaging zsh-syntax-highlighting (#2000) that requires something to be added to $HOME/.zshrc. Should we create a way to modify a user's system post-install? Certain packages definitely require it.

Context: Here's what I see for $HOME.

# Inside the package.yaml
$ echo $HOME 
'/Users/sanch/tea/pkgdev/pantry/builds/github.com\342\210\225zsh-users\342\210\225zsh-syntax-highlighting-0.7.1+darwin/xyz.tea.home'

# In zsh
$ echo $HOME
/Users/sanch

We could use something like {{home}} to refer to the user's home directory.

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