MS and Windows gets a lot of (well deserved) hate, but winget is just fantastic!

• WingetUI

  24 8,688 9.9 PowerShell

  WingetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers

• winget-pkgs

  98 8,004 10.0 PowerShell

  The Microsoft community Windows Package Manager manifest repository

  

Take dropbox as an example. This is what the yaml manifest looks like for that if you install it through winget. It literally has a hardcoded link to an .exe installer hosted by dropbox and then just set the flags to silent. I am not spreading misinformation, you are.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• winget-cli

  283 22,110 9.3 C++

  WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

  

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:

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