[wpkg-users] Best way to deal with depends you want to keep installed?

[Nils Thiele]

Hey,

i was wondering what is the best way to deal packages that were 
installed by another one using the depend tag but you want to keep them 
installed when you remove the original one.

I have a program that depends on .Net 4.5.2, at the time i created the 
package this version wasn't pushed through windows updates to all 
clients yet. My .Net package has several registry checks to for all 
kinds of updated .Net versions.

Now when i want to remove the original program it will try to remove 
.Net as well as its not registered to that system anymore but i don't 
want to do this of course, maybe even impossible on more modern Windows 
versions.

I have no uninstall command for the .Net package but it will always 
return with an error because wpkg detects it as still installed because 
of the registry checks.

I could of course add .Net to all those systems as seperate package but 
is there another solution? That would wpkg happily remove the package 
and trick it so it thinks it is successfully removed without breaking 
the package for others system that may not have .Net installed yet?

Thanks for any tips!

Best Regards,

Nils

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