Hello everyone,

Hope you're all safe.

I usually use the "depends" flag inside __manifest__ file to automate modules installation in Odoo, in this case on version 12.

Using this approach allows me to install several modules at once just by installing one module.

This works great, but unfortunately, there is a reference for every module to the main installed module and a this way a reference between all of them.

Using this approach, if for some reason I need to remove one of the "dependencies", Odoo will remove all related modules.

Is there any alternate way of automate modules install?

Perhaps some code to be used on "pre_init_hook/post_init_hook"?

Thank you all in advance

Best regards
PM