microsoft / microsoft/winget-cli
add norestart and verysilent or qn switches?
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Description
Been using winget for a couple of months and aside from the occasional bug it's already proving itself to be leagues better than chocolatey.
However, something I've repeatedly noticed is the lack of installer/uninstaller gui suppression or restart suppression.
Is that something winget plans to add? it makes me very nervous that doing an upgrade -all can cause my computer to reboot.
I managed to shutdown -a this time but I really should not have to do that.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the winget CLI's upgrade --all flow and how installers and uninstallers handle GUI and restart behavior. Determine the intended semantics for norestart and verysilent/qn switches, then verify that upgrades can complete without prompting or rebooting the computer.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100