Dedicated packageType for packages with ./tools folder

[matkoch]

Feature Request

A lot of packages are purely used for what they ship in the ./tools folder (related feature here is PackageDownload). It would be nice to have the ability to distinguish such packages on the metadata level (packageType).

Related to this request is #10782.

[joelverhagen]

One thing we need to be careful about is packages that contain both tools and lib. In such cases the package author might intend to support both the PackageReference and PackageDownload scenario with the same package.

Looking at the data, about 45% of packages with non-.ps1/.psm1/. tools files also have lib files.

So it seems to me that the chance of having a dual purpose package (i.e. both a Dependency package type and "tools" package type) is relatively high. Due to this, I think we may be blocked on this feature by #10468.

[joelverhagen]

/cc @JonDouglas for this request.