microsoft / microsoft/winget-cli
WinGet "List" without hitting the network
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Description
Description of the new feature / enhancement
Sometimes I want to get an inventory of the devices and I don't want to incur the cost of the network traffic or performance hit to query the available versions, and or the sources where these packages are available.
This would likely be some kind of argument passed to the "list" command.
The scenario was proposed by an IT administrator looking to get an inventory of the installed packages and their versions.
Proposed technical implementation details
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the WinGet CLI's list command and how it queries available versions and package sources. Define the offline inventory behavior and its command-line argument, then verify that installed packages and versions are reported without network traffic.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100