Suppress reboot on default

[peterjc123]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

I tried to do winget install 7zip and then it automatically triggers a reboot on my PC. It's not a good user experience. I think you should suppress the reboot after installation unless explicitly specified.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Either design an option --reboot and make it off by default or just never reboot after installation.

[Lebrack]

Are you sure? I intalled 7Zip with no reboot action. Even MSI/EXE classic (manual) installation of 7Zip, don´t triggers a reboot.

[peterjc123]

Oh, maybe I have an existing 7zip installation. But anyway, we should not trigger reboot automatically.

[madcampos]

If I reboot after a install will winget be able to return to that point and continue after the reboot?

[denelon]

@peterjc123 the current implementation of the client 0.1 doesn't support a forced reboot. If an installer does, it's outside of the winget.exe client. You may have encountered a bug. I haven't been able to reproduce this in my test VM.

[blogcraft]

It happened to me while installing Visual Studio Community and Microsoft Teams.

[WereCatf]

I just installed LibreOffice with Winget and it rebooted Windows, causing me to lose quite a bit of work! That is definitely NOT a good experience.

Yes, I understand that it's LibreOffice's installer doing that, but this really needs to be fixed one way or another -- the PC should not be rebooting all of a sudden, with zero warning or anything. I don't even care how it gets fixed, maybe Windows needs a way for Winget to be able to inhibit reboots or something, I have no idea, but it's just not reasonable to expect Winget - users to close all of their open work and (attempt to) save their things when installing something, just in case Windows reboots without any prompt at all.