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@arnavbhate The store source is a front end for existing technologies. The "Id" values simply need to be unique rather than human readable. We do have work coming to improve...

The earlier experimental source was just a subset of packages that had been curated. The new source combines several back end systems into a unified REST source implementation the Windows...

@TechWatching I don't have an ETA on this one. We're working on several improvements to matching. The current behavior supports export if the package from the store was installed via...

We've seen this with programs aborting Windows Terminal and added a key to the manifest schema. This sounds like a similar scenario, but might need to be handled a bit...

What kind of name were you thinking for the manifest key? "VolatileInstaller" as a boolean? We could provide a message like: "This installer is known to interfere with running applications"...

This sounds like it may be a bug with [Windows Terminal](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal).

I've contacted a few of the other teams internally to understand what options we have. Once I am able to pull all the options together, we will discuss the best...

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/131 is an example of a package that has an external dependency.

What are thoughts on a short-term UI display/prompt for dependencies? Assume package foo needs Java to be installed on the machine. Assume the key in the manifest would be "DependsOn"....

MSIX packages can be parsed for dependencies, but many other installers can't. We will automate what we can, and otherwise, yes dependencies will need to be explicitly added to manifests.