maclaunch mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• maclaunch

Projektgeschichte

The official repository was created in January 2017. Its scope is intentionally narrow: enumerate startup mechanisms such as LaunchAgents, LaunchDaemons, kernel extensions, system extensions, hooks, emond scripts, and cron scripts, then toggle them without rewriting their files.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The README documents Homebrew installation and manual copying of the shell script. Repository metadata captured during this run showed a few hundred GitHub stars, consistent with a niche but useful macOS administration utility.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical commands are `maclaunch list`, `maclaunch list enabled`, `maclaunch list system`, `maclaunch enable <filter>`, and `maclaunch disable <filter>`. The README also documents `ML_SYSTEM` for showing or hiding likely-uninteresting system startup items.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

maclaunch matters to package and system tinkerers because launchd agents and daemons are a common side effect of installing Mac software. A small CLI that filters and toggles them gives Homebrew-era Mac users a scriptable way to audit what starts automatically.

Zeitleiste

• 2017: Official GitHub repository created.
• 2023: Repository activity continued through commits pushed to the default branch.

Related projects

• The tool is related to `launchctl`, `kextutil`, `systemextensionsctl`, and other macOS startup-management surfaces that it wraps or inspects.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/hazcod/maclaunch
• https://github.com/hazcod/maclaunch
• https://github.com/hazcod/maclaunch#readme
• source_facts.package-manager