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Didn't OS X do this with some CLIs, you'd type a command and got prompted to download Xcode..

Sounds familiar, but Xcode does actually provide a bunch of CLI tools...

I think it’s when you have to download the Xcode CLI tools that many packages rely on. But you do it once and you never do it again.

Definitely not equivalent situations.

The only difference is that it's more finely grained? I don't see how it's completely different

> But you do it once and you never do it again.

Well other than every time there's an Xcode update.

Yeah, Java and git in my experience. There's a dumb chain of symlinks to where they really reside.

Actually a symlink to xcselect, which looks up the command based on the current developer directory.