mas uses the region of the macOS user, not of the App Store; probably unfixable except for manual configuration

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

Research direction

Search the Swift implementation and documentation for the region and config commands, then compare their reported region with the MAS account and macOS user behavior described here. Determine whether the MAS region can be read reliably; done means either the commands report that region or the documentation accurately describes the current behavior.

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Description

bug investigation

region & config display the default region of Apple Account logged into the MAS.

If you change the region of the MAS to be different than the default region of the logged in Apple Account, region will still display the default region of the Apple Account, rather than the region configured in the MAS.

If you use a different Apple Account in the MAS than for your macOS user, region will display the default region for the MAS Apple Account.

See initial info from https://github.com/mas-cli/mas/pull/689#issuecomment-2712296013.

Additional tests were done to determine the rest of the info here.

Either always output the MAS region, or reword the region docs to be correct (& later try to fix region to output the MAS region).

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