[Package Issue]: BlenderFoundation.Blender

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Category of the issue

Installation issue.

Brief description of your issue

Blender installs every medium version (e.g. 3.3., 3.4., etc.) in a separate folder, which results in loss of previously installed plugins and configured preferences between medium updates and disk space cluttering.

Steps to reproduce

1. winget install BlenderFoundation.Blender --version 3.3.1
2. winget update BlenderFoundation.Blender
3. winget list --id BlenderFoundation.Blender

Actual behavior

1. For each installed update, a new folder is created (e.g. C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.3\, C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.4\)
2. These folders contain redundant files (blender.exe, blender-launcher.exe) and already contain version-specific directories (Blender 3.3\3.3\, Blender 3.4\3.4\)
3. winget doesn't detect an update and suggests to update an app again (e.g. to install Blender 3.4 when it is already installed, but winget only detects previously installed Blender 3.3)

Expected behavior

1. All Blender versions to be installed in the same root directory, e.g. C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender.
2. Blender updates to be installed over previous versions in the same folder as it is already installed.
3. Blender updates to be detected as installed after being applied.

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Possible solution: use MSI Public Properties when calling blender-$version-$platform-$architecture.msi, for example:

.\blender-3.4.1-windows-x64.msi INSTALL_ROOT=`"C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\`"

Environment

Windows Package Manager v1.4.10173
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.19044.2486
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.19.10173.0

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

User Settings: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json

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