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WinGet isn't really a package manager.

Package manager role is, well, managing packages.

WinGet is just a repo with installers of the programs listed, but dependency managing and installation it self is handled by the installers, not winget. (Don't know if the ms-store package format isn't exception to that, but still)



>WinGet isn't really a package manager.

Microsoft literally calls it along with some complementary services the "Windows Package Manager"

>Package manager role is, well, managing packages.

Which is what it refers to what it is managing.

>but dependency managing and installation it self is handled by the installers

The package manifest is allows for dependencies on other packages.


That's great that microsoft calls it that, but that doesn't really matter.

Winget is just as much a package manager, as the "add or uninstall apps" tab in windows settings is. It's just a interface. But the actual act of installing is done by different program.




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