[wpkg-users] Silently drop a package

[Brian May]

Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> I had deployed Adobe Reader 8.1.2 as package, and since I was still
> quite new to WPKG, I later deployed Adobe Reader 8.1.2 SU1 as a separate
> package (depending on Adobe Reader 8.1.2), which was obviously not the
> best choice. Now I deployed Adobe Reader 9, which automatically
> uninstalls 8.1.2 and the SU1. I increased revision number of the Adobe
> Reader package and updated the checks and commands, which worked just
> fine. But what now with the SU1 package?

As was previously explained to me it is better not to append the package 
version into the package id. So you only have one package definition for 
Adobe Reader. This means upgrades will work properly.

Some of the examples on the wiki don't comply with this, unfortunately.

Brian May