When you finally replace your manual bin copy with a signed, scripted, receipt-generating .pkg file, you will understand what "better" truly means. Your users will thank you. Your CI/CD pipeline will thank you. And your future self—debugging a production server at 2 AM—will thank you for the clean, uninstallable, dependency-aware package you built today.
Instead, adopt the five-step interrogation method: Use modern tools like FPM or Packages. Respect the operating system's package manager. bin to pkg better
This isn't just about conversion; it is about intelligent conversion. It means preserving metadata, validating signatures, and ensuring that the resulting package behaves exactly as a native first-party app should. When you finally replace your manual bin copy