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@MyrddinE I think implementing something like this would be quite complex considering winget allows the option to --override and many vendors include path parameters. In your example with Python, I...

@iksi4prs What you are asking though is near impossible. Winget simple executes installer types. It's not the Msi engine. Inno types, exes don't always expose the "default" install path. So...

I don't work for MS so politics aside, winget is useful to me managing deployments in a large enterprise (by myself). Can I ask, regarding the path not being listed....

Ok gotcha. So thinking about this objectively, taking winget out of the picture... What experience do you get when installing python through the GUI? At some point in the flow...

> I don't think you need to have that concern. There are any number of things that if you copy and paste into a administrator command prompt will absolutely trash/compromise/etc....

> I see the point regarding verification of binaries. But Microsoft has a very good code signing system baked into Windows that winget could leverage to provide those same guarantees....

This would be a very nice addition to assist enterprise management and simplify how its done within Intune. I'm doing something like this at the moment. `# Pro-Active Remediation Detect...

—force will work. Similar issue I’ve faced with devs having multiple versions installed. The python installers are not nice, they leave quite a number of uninstall keys in the registry...

See https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/99685 which explains what I’ve seen. It’s generally about scope of install. 99% of the time only a problem for enterprise users sharing machines or installing the software themselves...

> > We need to update https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/tree/master/doc/troubleshooting with the information regarding running WinGet using the system context. The issue is that we are distributed as an MSIX package which is...