Add filter-by install scope (user/machine) for List and Search#6044

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Fixes #6045 and Implements #4236 (summarized in #1155), #6046, and #6047

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 Add filter-by install scope (user/machine) for List and Search

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Also fix the filter-by source for List to work.
Added parameter to Get-WinGetPackage for install scope and
pass it down to the filters sent to WinGet CLI.

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The filter parameter --source for winget list is ignored. #6045

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There is no actual change to behavior presented here (save potential improvements to completion). Filtering by scope is already present on list and adding it to search will require significant investment, including placing the scope into the index.

Filtering the list output based on the source parameter is achievable with a client only change, but this PR doesn't actually do what is needed.

doc/ReleaseNotes.md

## Bug Fixes

> 1. Prior to this version, it was permitted to provide a `--source` filter for the `winget list` command, however the parameter was ignored. Now if a filter is provided packages will be check before being returned from the `winget list` command.

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> 1. Prior to this version, it was permitted to provide a `--source` filter for the `winget list` command, however the parameter was used only to limit the sources to correlate with. Now, if a filter is provided, packages will be filtered before being output from the `winget list` command.

This is false; the parameter was used inconsistently from how it would seem most people expected (but very consistently with the rest of the command workflows).

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When calling the Powershell API, it sure doesn't seem to filter by scope. My goal is to find all the user-scoped, winget-installed packages and reinstall them as machine-scoped if possible. Trying to script in Powershell...

src/AppInstallerCLICore/Commands/SearchCommand.cpp

Argument::ForType(Execution::Args::Type::Tag),

Argument::ForType(Execution::Args::Type::Command),

Argument::ForType(Execution::Args::Type::Source),

Argument{ Execution::Args::Type::InstallScope, Resource::String::InstalledScopeArgumentDescription, ArgumentType::Standard, Argument::Visibility::Help },

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Argument{ Execution::Args::Type::InstallScope, Resource::String::InstalledScopeArgumentDescription, ArgumentType::Standard, Argument::Visibility::Help },

Argument{ Execution::Args::Type::InstallScope, Resource::String::InstallScopeDescription, ArgumentType::Standard, Argument::Visibility::Help },

Additionally, just accepting the parameter is unlikely to have the desired effect on the downstream workflow. search in particular intentionally avoids accessing the manifest, which is currently the only way to know available scopes and thus filter the results.

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Fair point. I was really only concerned with pulling a list to make an script to do an automated "user" to "machine" reinstall. I'll pull the search changes :)