Handle Multiple Major Versions of One Package

[cotsuka]

Brief description of your issue

winget is not able to handle the situation where there are multiple versions of the same package installed, based on name. An example of this in action are .NET runtimes, where you often have multiple major versions installed side-by-side.

Steps to reproduce

1. Have .NET Core Runtime 3 and .NET Core Runtime 5 installed.
2. Run winget upgrade --all

Expected behavior

Ideally, I expect .NET Core Runtime 3 to be considered separate from .NET Core Runtime 5. When winget checks for upgrades, it should only look for upgrades relating to that major version.

Actual behavior

winget is seeing both .NET Core Runtime 3 (version 3.1.11.29516 on my computer) and .NET Core Runtime 5 (version 5.0.3.29723 on my computer) and reporting that an upgrade to version 5.0.4.29817 is available for both runtimes.

winget upgrade:

Name              Id                      Version      Available   Source
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
.NET Core Runtime Microsoft.dotnetRuntime 5.0.3.29723  5.0.4.29817 winget
.NET Core Runtime Microsoft.dotnetRuntime 3.1.11.29516 5.0.4.29817 winget

winget upgrade --all:

Found .NET Core Runtime [Microsoft.dotnetRuntime]
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/7a5d15ae-0487-428d-8262-2824279ccc00/6a10ce9e632bce818ce6698d9e9faf39/windowsdesktop-runtime-5.0.4-win-x64.exe
  ██████████████████████████████  52.2 MB / 52.2 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

Found .NET Core Runtime [Microsoft.dotnetRuntime]
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/c6541c87-42f2-4c5d-b6db-2df0dade5e00/13e89a5fec3ddb224cd93dd18b0761ff/windowsdesktop-runtime-5.0.3-win-x64.exe
  ██████████████████████████████  52.4 MB / 52.4 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Installer failed with exit code: 1638

Environment

Windows Package Manager v0.2.10191 Preview
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.19042.867
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.11.10191.0

Logs: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir

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[denelon]

This is something we've been considering for programming languages as well. These may need to be treated as separate packages rather than the same package.

[denelon]

I'm going to convert this to a discussion for now.