[Gpg4win-users-en] Gpg4win installation behavior when GnuPG is already installed

[Rohan Kapadia]

Hi,

I have installed Gpg4win as well as GnuPG. Both packages were installed via the winget package manager that is shipped with Windows 11.

Now, when I run `winget show GnuPG.Gpg4win` I see the details of the Gpg4win package and I do not see any dependency on GnuPG.
This is likely because Gpg4win also ships with it's own version of GnuPG.

When I open up the Gpg4win folder in Program Files, I don't see the GnuPG binaries. Just the Gpg4win packaged software binaries.

Is this because I had already installed GnuPG using `winget install GnuPG.GnuPG` before I installed Gpg4win? I didn't see any message in the Gpg4win installation to indicate the same.

What I am trying to understand is the behavior of gpg4win installer when GnuPG is already present on the system? Does Gpg4win overwrite the already installed version of GnuPG?
Does Gpg4win check the installed version of GnuPG and only installs GnuPG if the version packaged with Gpg4win is newer?
Does Gpg4win simply ignore the GnuPG bundle when it finds that GnuPG is already installed on the system?

Do let me know if my understanding of what the gpg4win bundle does is incorrect. I'm new to this software on windows 11 and it could quite possibly be that my questions do not make sense to an advanced user.

Thanks

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kapad
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