[Package Issue]: Nushell.Nushell Installation doesn't respect the selected scope

[youk]

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Category of the issue

Installation issue.

Brief description of your issue

Both user and machine scopes behave in misleading way during installation. Package is either not installed or installed to the wrong location.

Steps to reproduce

• winget install -e --id Nushell.Nushell --scope user
  

  See the error message.

• winget install -e --id Nushell.Nushell --scope machine
  

  Check the actual install location.

Actual behavior

• Installing to user scope:

  winget install -e --id Nushell.Nushell --scope user
  

  No applicable installer found; see logs for more details.
  

• Installing to machine scope as a regular user:

  winget install -e --id Nushell.Nushell --scope machine
  

  Failed to open the predefined source; please report to winget maintainers.
  An unexpected error occurred while executing the command:
  0x80070005 : Access is denied.
  

• Installing to machine scope as administrator:

  winget install -e --id Nushell.Nushell --scope machine
  

  Package is installed per user (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\nu)

Expected behavior

1. Package installation respects the --scope flag.
2. Package is not installed to unexpected locations.

Environment

Windows Package Manager (Preview) v1.10.40-preview
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.19045.5247
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.25.40.0

Winget Directories
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Logs                               %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir
User Settings                      %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json
Portable Links Directory (User)    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links
Portable Links Directory (Machine) C:\Program Files\WinGet\Links
Portable Package Root (User)       %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root              C:\Program Files\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root (x86)        C:\Program Files (x86)\WinGet\Packages
Installer Downloads                %USERPROFILE%\Downloads

Links
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License Agreement   https://aka.ms/winget-license
Third Party Notices https://aka.ms/winget-3rdPartyNotice
Homepage            https://aka.ms/winget
Windows Store Terms https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/storedocs/terms-of-sale

Admin Setting                             State
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LocalManifestFiles                        Disabled
BypassCertificatePinningForMicrosoftStore Disabled
InstallerHashOverride                     Disabled
LocalArchiveMalwareScanOverride           Disabled
ProxyCommandLineOptions                   Disabled
DefaultProxy                              Disabled

Screenshots and Logs

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[similar-issues-ai]

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If any of the above are duplicates, please consider closing this issue out and adding additional context in the original issue.

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[Dragon1573]

Actual behavior

• Installing to user scope:

  winget install -e --id Nushell.Nushell --scope user
  

  No applicable installer found; see logs for more details.
  

There's Scope: machine pre-defined in the manifest. So it IS expected adding --scope user find nothing available.

[Trenly]

There is a bug with Wix itself that always writes the installer information to the machine scoped registry, even if the package is installed in user scope. Because of this, adding scope: user to the manifest would break the upgrade flow and cause other issues since there would be a scope mismatch.