[CHOCO] better support for meta packages

marticliment / UniGetUI

UniGetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers. Could be terribly described as a package manager manager to manage your package managers

https://www.marticliment.com/unigetui/

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[CHOCO] better support for meta packages #975

Open ppvnf opened 1 year ago

ppvnf commented 1 year ago

For example the package putty is like a shortcute that installs putty.portable as well

[ ] How about displaying this as an warning?

[ ] Also, those kinds of packages are not appearing on the uninstall list after being installed for some reason

ppvnf commented 1 year ago

I think in beta2 meta packages stoped working. I installed nodejs, but it didn't work (nodejs.install was not installed). I had to separately install nodejs.install for it to actually be installed. A possible solution would be for WingetUI to detect (like we discussed in https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI/pull/970) and install the dependencies, although I do not understand why Chocolatey is not doing it automatically.

ppvnf commented 1 year ago

is this the same as https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI/issues/1342?

marticliment commented 1 year ago

no, that was pure anesthetics.

This involves functionality