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Allow custom installation location

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start with src/modes/install.ts at the linked permission check and trace how the installation path is selected for both install and uninstall. The change is complete when PKGX_INSTALLATION_DIR consistently determines that location instead of the default /usr/local, including the multi-user case.

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Description

Since pkgx install is simply checking if the user has permissions to write to /usr/local it has a very confusing behavior. When there are more than one users in the system it will have conflicting results because some packages can be already installed by another user to the same folder.

It would be useful to have a simple PKGX_INSTALLATION_DIR showing it where to install/uninstall packages.

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