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Add support for installing to a local binary directory such as .local/bin

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start at the CLI's current installation entry point and trace how it selects the destination under /usr/local/bin. Review how user-local binary directories differ across Linux and macOS, then define the supported destination behavior and verify that installation completes without sudo.

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Description

User installs of programs are very nice when you distrohop a lot or just don't want to sudo everything into /usr/local/bin, being able to install into a local binary directory such as .local/bin or whatever macos equivalent there is would be very handy

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
13
Forks
14
Avg merge
23h 49m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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