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What stands out to me is that winget has the appearance and is often perceived as a package manager, yet it's more of a CLI front end to an index, and that index seems to either point to the windows store or a URL to download a regular setup file which it'll run silently (adobe acrobat is the example that springs to mind).


Exactly! It's like curl|bash for Windows but where you don't even see the URL.


Is that any different than chocolatey, scoop, or homebrew casks?


homebrew casks have acceptance criteria.




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