install: reduce nest by if & match

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GNU testsuite comparison:

Skip an intermittent issue tests/cut/bounded-memory (fails in this run but passes in the 'main' branch)
Skipping an intermittent issue tests/tail/retry (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)
Skipping an intermittent issue tests/tail/tail-n0f (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)
Note: The gnu test tests/expand/bounded-memory is now being skipped but was previously passing.
Note: The gnu test tests/tail/pipe-f is now being skipped but was previously passing.
Skip an intermittent issue tests/pr/bounded-memory (was skipped on 'main', now failing)