[FEATURE REQUEST] Add LTS Updates option

[CrossField1973]

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Describe the new feature

A possibility to only choose LTS versions of a software would be nice, so only LTS versions of the software will be installed and only once a new LTS version was published does the software get upgraded.

Describe how this new feature could help users

Development teams often use LTS versions for better support and to have the same features across developers. Even if you work in your free time on person projects you sometimes want to have the same dev environment as you have at work, so it would be nice to have an option to only use the LTS versions of a software.

This feature can be expanded to only install specific versions of a software with specific features, since sometimes you need specific software versions for specific features (e.g. the older Kindle Desktop App version to format you Kindl books to epub files).

[marticliment]

Package managers don't expose this info, so this will be very difficult, if not impossible, to implement.

[Mertsch]

And it's possible for packages to do exactly that

[marticliment]

This is not exactly true. WinGet does not natively support the LTS concept. What NodeJS publishers did here is publish two different packages (to what concerns WinGet they are completely different packages and not related at all), and they update one of them with all new versions, and the other will only have listed the LTS versions, allowing the user to have only updates for the LTS one. However, this is not a behaviour designed by WinGet, but rather something that NodeJS decided to do. Other packages, if they offer this functionality, are likely going to work differently, since there is no standard to implement this feature.

[Mertsch]

Yes, sorry for my short message, I mean exactly what you describe 😄