As shown above --most if not all WinGet apps seem to follow this trend--, certain apps seem to store themselves or their installer|updater as an archive, within themselves. This sounds like a massive waste of space ; because it is. After purging my system from those redundant archives, I have managed to net a gain of several gigabytes of free space.
Surely you would think that given how these apps were installed through a package manager, they would all exclusively (or at the very least primarily) rely on exactly that in order to get updated, right ?
And yet those are the (only ?) ones I find exerting this sort of behaviour. This is troubling, to say the least.
Is this some kind of WinGet "standard", as in the recommended way of doing things ? What point even is there to keeping an archive of an app --along with its installer-- when the whole point is to update it ; which requires downloading a lot of data regardless.
This sounds like a massive waste, and I would quite like to know the reason behind this choice, if there even are any reasonable ones.
I don't think I've ever seen any other --non-DOS-- package managers do this, nor have any of the previous Windows installation "standards" done anything similar, to my knowledge.
