[Package Issue]: MartiCliment.UniGetUI — dependency requires elevated installation, actual package denies elevated installation

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Category of the issue

Installation issue.

Brief description of your issue

Running installation elevated, the following error is shown:

>winget install -e --id MartiCliment.UniGetUI
The installer cannot be run from an administrator context.

then running the same command from an unelevated context, the following error occurs instead:

>winget install -e --id MartiCliment.UniGetUI
Found UniGetUI (formerly WingetUI) [MartiCliment.UniGetUI] Version 3.1.3
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
This package requires the following dependencies:
  - Packages
      Microsoft.EdgeWebView2Runtime [>= 129.0.2792.89]
      Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64 [>= 14.40.33816.0]
(1/2) Found Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime [Microsoft.EdgeWebView2Runtime] Version 131.0.2903.86
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://msedge.sf.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com/filestreamingservice/files/7a700eba-24af-452b-88f1-7625cf472b9b/MicrosoftEdgeWebView2RuntimeInstallerX64.exe
  ██████████████████████████████   173 MB /  173 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Installer failed with exit code: 2147747880

The latter seems to be related to #192036

Steps to reproduce

1. Open elevated prompt
2. Run winget install -e --id MartiCliment.UniGetUI (elevated), you get the error The installer cannot be run from an administrator context.
3. Open an unprivileged prompt
4. Re-run winget install -e --id MartiCliment.UniGetUI (unprivileged)

Actual behavior

>winget install -e --id MartiCliment.UniGetUI
Found UniGetUI (formerly WingetUI) [MartiCliment.UniGetUI] Version 3.1.3
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
This package requires the following dependencies:
  - Packages
      Microsoft.EdgeWebView2Runtime [>= 129.0.2792.89]
      Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64 [>= 14.40.33816.0]
(1/2) Found Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime [Microsoft.EdgeWebView2Runtime] Version 131.0.2903.86
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://msedge.sf.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com/filestreamingservice/files/7a700eba-24af-452b-88f1-7625cf472b9b/MicrosoftEdgeWebView2RuntimeInstallerX64.exe
  ██████████████████████████████   173 MB /  173 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Installer failed with exit code: 2147747880

Expected behavior

I expected the installation to succeed. Alternatively I would have expected winget to "drop" elevation when invoking an installer that explicitly doesn't want to run this way.

The latter can be achieved by locally setting the variable __compat_layer to RunAsInvoker. See here and here (I'm the author). To the best of my knowledge both the variable name and its value are case-insensitive.

Environment

winget --info
Windows Package Manager v1.9.25200
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.26100.2605
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.24.25200.0

Winget Directories
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Logs                               %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Diag…
User Settings                      %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\sett…
Portable Links Directory (User)    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links
Portable Links Directory (Machine) C:\Program Files\WinGet\Links
Portable Package Root (User)       %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root              C:\Program Files\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root (x86)        C:\Program Files (x86)\WinGet\Packages
Installer Downloads                %USERPROFILE%\Downloads

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Admin Setting                             State
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LocalManifestFiles                        Disabled
BypassCertificatePinningForMicrosoftStore Disabled
InstallerHashOverride                     Disabled
LocalArchiveMalwareScanOverride           Disabled
ProxyCommandLineOptions                   Disabled
DefaultProxy                              Disabled

Screenshots and Logs

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[Trenly]

@denelon - If I'm not mistaken, this belongs over at CLI