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Interactive Upgrade

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Description

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Interactive Upgrade: The ability to receive a list of upgradable apps, and interactively select which ones to upgrade.

Simplifies cases where I want to upgrade a subset of apps, but I also don't necessarily want to pin (#476) apps either.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

A variation of winget upgrade that accepts something like --select (or something else good, -i is already taken) that gets the same "upgradable" list, but allows you to select which packages to upgrade and then upgrades that subset. Assumes rich TTY support

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Research direction

Start with the existing winget upgrade command and the code path that produces its upgradable-app list. Determine how the CLI handles rich TTY interaction, then define completion as allowing users to select a subset and upgrading only those selected packages.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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