textpieces VS winget-cli

Text Pieces

For Linux there's Text Pieces which does a similar job. Idk about Mac but I'd expect some similar tool to exist too.

Winget seems to finally do something similar for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

Although the "repo" is a list of manifest files that include download sources on GitHub and Sourceforge (and maybe others). So even if there is an approval process it seems to be quite vulnerable to including malware.

Microsoft seems to use a similar bot themselves, not sure how it is called or whether it is OSS: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/4765#issuecom...

It's not only tedious but also gets complicated because sometimes --id doesn't work as expected, as mentioned [here] the famous pnpm.pnpm (https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/4751). So, you often need to use --name instead of --id.

For instance, on a Windows system, you would use winget and run the following command: winget install s3scanner. Your output would look like this:

The Winget module is a wreck. The way it is designed, unfortunately, neither fits the object oriented approach of PowerShell nor follows the PowerShell guidelines for cmdlets.

For instance https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3820 or https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3231.

Step 1: Download under this link Please use either link ok: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/ https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases The file will look like Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

For both Windows 10 and 11, every application and system package gets installed via winget import --import-file {{JSON-file}}, when possible. It's shipped as a component of the App Installer package, which is supplied with Windows 11 but optional for Windows 10.

REALIX HWiNFO: https://www.hwinfo.com/

GitHub

Source: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3832

You're correct here, and that's exactly the reason Winget is a package manager, as dependency management is part of teh stable release since version 1.6.3133: