createDependency Step Uninstall Implications

A component may not be uninstalled if there exist installed components that depend on it. When an uninstall block of a component is encountered, if there exists one or more persistent dependencies for which the component is the dependee, then the uninstall fails immediately. However, if a component B is being uninstalled by another component A, then dependencies created by A on B will not prevent B from being uninstalled, and will be implicitly removed when B is successfully uninstalled.

The dependee component can specify actions to uninstall its dependants using a <dependantCleanup> block.